FAITH CAPSULE: Are you mixed-up with many?
Numbers 11
The multitude is a state of many.
In life, to journey with the many is bound not to arrive at the expected end of the journey. The word admonishes, “…For many are called, but few chosen.” (Matthew 20:16)
Are you one in the company of multitude with the tendency to be crowded, not to see or rise over challenges in the journey of life?
The multitude/crowd in life, as an agent for hindrance, should be denied in life.
What role is the multitude/crowd doing in your life?
Multitude could be a hindrance.
If a multitude is allowed in life, it will deny one from getting to where the LORD has destined for one to be. For example, the Israelites were mixed-up with multitudes and could not arrive at the destiny of God for their life.
When a mix up with the multitude is allowed in life, confusion is bound to exist, and that is certain to experience failure.
Where there is a mix-up with the multitude, disorderliness shall predominate.
In the place of mix up with the multitude, confusion, mistake, misunderstanding will be in place.
As an acclaimed believer, are you searching for yourself to identify if you are mixed-up with the multitude?
The Israelites were about to engage the journey of freedom, to the promised of God when they mixed up with a multitude that is not of God for them. Exodus 12:38 said it, “A mixed multitude went up with them…”
God did not call the Israelites to go with the multitude, but they went with them, and the consequence led them into destruction.
Numbers 11:4-6 records the damage of the mixed-up multitudes with the life of the Israelites, ” Now the mixed multitude 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? 5 We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic; 6 but now our whole being is dried up; there is nothing at all except this manna before our eyes!”
With the multitudes, the Israelites were mixed-up, confused to confess negative before God, and that denied them to arrive at the promised of God. The word testifies about the complaint of the Israelites before God and the response of God to them in Numbers 14:27-29, “How long shall I bear with this evil congregation who complain against Me? I have heard the complaints which the children of Israel make against Me. 28 Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you: 29 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.”
What is it that is confusing you to be confessing negative in the place of positive before God?
The Israelites were mixed-up with the multitude and could not arrive at the promise of God.
Prayer for today: Ask that you will not become a victim of the multitude.