BAD COMPANY CORRUPTS: Devotion for Saturday July 9, 2016

BAD COMPANY CORRUPTS: Devotion for Saturday July 9, 2016

Text: Numbers 11:4 – 9              

Memory verse: Numbers 11:4 – 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?

The Israelis were weary of the provision God had made for them, although wholesome food and nourishing. The mixed multitude instigated their weariness about God’s provision. The manna God gave them cost no money or care, and the labour of gathering it was very little indeed. Despite these, they talked of Egypt's cheapness, and the fish they ate there freely; as if that cost them nothing, when they paid dearly for it with hard service.

“While they lived on manna, they seemed exempt from the curse sin has brought on man, that in the sweat of his face he should eat bread; yet they speak of it with scorn. Peevish, discontented minds will find fault with that which has no fault in it, but that it is too good for them” as Matthew Henry noted. Yesterday we read how they attracted God’s anger and today we read how they complained again just because of the influence of mixed multitude.

Man is never satisfied. His desires grow on daily basis and he is insatiable. These were men that complained about the torture they were going through in Egypt. Now they are dreaming of that place again. We can easily blame them for this unruly behaviour but most times, we even act worse than these. We dream and wish to have what we rejected, thus going back to our vomit. The kind of friends we keep and inability to feed our spirit with the word of God make us to go back to our vomit. When we join the mixed multitude, they will corrupt us. Note Paul’s word in 1 Cor. 15:33.

Food for Thought: 1 Corinthians 10:6 – Now these things became our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted.

Prayer: Deliver me, O Lord, from all association with mixed multitude and grant me the spirit of contentment in Jesus name.            

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