FAITH CAPSULE: A failure to disengage multitude is an engagement to failure in endeavor.
Numbers 14:1-35
In every endeavor, to achieve expected result man must continually give attention to deny agents of multitude. Agents of multitude are hindrance for man’s endeavor in the journey of life. Agent of multitude can be a man’s family, friend or crowd which can be a man’s hindrance. Are you engaging any agent of multitude? In life, among the major hindrance of man’s endeavor is engaging multitude. A failure to disengage multitude is an engagement to failure in endeavor. The bible recorded, “Then the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides children. A mixed multitude went up with them also, and flocks and herds—a great deal of livestock.” (Exodus 12:37-38) Evidently, when the children of Israel were coming out of the bondage of over hundred years, multitude accompanied them and played a major role denying them from getting through to God’s Promised Land for them.
As the Israelites progressed on journey, the effect of mixed multitude manifested negatively. It is written, “Now the mixed multitudes who were among them yielded to intense craving; so the children of Israel also wept again and said: “Who will give us meat to eat? We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic; but now our whole being is dried up; there is nothing at all except this manna before our eyes!” (Numbers 11:4-6)
Mixed multitude was the source of intense craving for what was not important in their journey to their God Promised Land. Imagine coming out of captivity or bondage and not focusing on promises of God in life? Does your endeavor sound like that of Israelites journey with multitude? Israelites were counting on what was in the past instead of counting on the miracles that brought them out of their past. In your endeavor, count not on no man, commit to God. God alone performs, He is more than able to perfect when there is commitment in place to Him. The craving of the Israelites dug the grave for twenty years old above in journey to Promised Land (Joshua and Caleb arrived Promised Land)
Multitude among Israelites was a great source of complaint to God instead of complimenting God for His grace of deliverance. God responded, “As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you: The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above. Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in.” (Numbers 14:27-30) Give attention to God alone by denying agents of multitude in your endeavor.
Prayer for today: Ask for the grace to identify and deny every agents of multitude in your journey of life.