Numbers 11:4-6
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? 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!”(NKJV)
The mixed multitude were not really full covenant people of God; they were partly Egyptian, partly Israeli; not a real commitment to the purposes of God, not a total commitment but actually coming along for the ride, coming along for the adventure, the excitement.
And they began to desire after the things of Egypt; the appetite of Egypt was still in their heart. Now, Egypt represents the world; the life of the flesh which always leads to bondage. And so they forgot the horrors of slavery and they were remembered the excitement of their flesh being satisfied; the fish, melons, cucumbers. The taste of Egypt was still in their mouth.
This is a replica of people who have come to Christ but have the taste of the world in their lives. They still long for some of the things of the flesh. They seek to follow Jesus but don’t want to deny themselves and carry the cross. There’s so much of Jesus in their lives that they can’t be fully happy in the world and too much of the world in their lives to be fully satisfied in Jesus. –Pst. Chuck Smith – (www.blueletterbible.org/commentaries/)
To fully enjoy the new life in Christ, we must completely and totally rid ourselves off this “mixed man” and put on the new man in Christ.
Further readings:
2 Cor 5:17
Gal 5:19-24
1Jhn 2:15-17
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