FAITH CAPSULE: Is there any mixed multitude with you as your company?

Numbers 14

The Israelites could not claim the promise of God as they failed to disengage mixed multitude to the Promised Land. Exodus 12:37-38 records: “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…”  
For the Israelites, a mixed-up multitude is an unholy mix-up. 
At the departure of the Israelites from bondage to the Promised Land, they could not disengage the mixed multitude.
As they progressed on the journey, the effect of mixed multitude caused trouble for the Israelites. The Bible records in Numbers 11:4-6, “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!”  
The initiation of Israelites complaining before God was the complaint of the mixed multitude. 
God responds to the complaint of Israelites, “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. Say to them, ‘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)
Interestingly, Pharaoh and his chariots could not deny the breakthrough of over four hundred years of the Israelites in Egypt but the mixed multitude denied them.
The Red Sea failed to hold back the Israelites from breaking forth, but the complaint of the mixed multitude prompted termination from reaching the Promised Land. 
Is there any mixed multitude with you as your company?
Here are some warning signals that mixed multitude is your company as you journey:
Mix-multitude will keep reminding you of the past when you need to focus on where the Lord is taking you.
Mix-multitude will only cause you to crave for want in the place need.
Mix-multitude will cave into complaining instead of complimenting God.
Mix-multitude will cause one to worry in the place of worship.
Consciously or unconsciously, who is the mix-multitude of your life journey?
Know to deny mix-multitude not to derail your life journey to arrive at the presence of God.
1 Peter 4:7 admonishes all, “But the end of all things is at hand; therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers.”
Watch against mix-multitude in your life journey, and pray that God will hedge your behind and before you and lay His hand upon me.

Prayer for today: Pray that you will live life to the glory of God.