How quickly the Israelites had forgotten what their fish and tossed salads had cost them while they were in Egypt. They had paid by the sweat of their brows and the slave labor of their bodies, a payment they’d cried out to the Lord to deliver them from. And once He had delivered them, they cried over the “good things” they felt they’d left behind. The Israelites claimed they were starving and withering away in the desert, “Our whole being is dried up.” We must look just as stupid to the Lord when we want to go back to our own “Egypt.”<\/p>\n
What is so appealing about returning to Egypt anyway? When we go back, the old man, the body of death that we are supposed to cut off or pluck out, is again in charge and we start demanding to have things our way<\/em>. For our flesh, it is a well-known and comfortable place. We know how to act there, and in fact, we think we are pretty good at it. We no longer have to try to deny ourselves, and so our flesh quiets down, at least for a moment, though it will very quickly begin crying out for more, more, more.<\/p>\n So how do we find rest in our deliverance? Galatians 5:16 tells us to “Walk in the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.\u201d Whenever we find ourselves looking longingly back to Egypt or wanting to take up full-time residence there, we have the guarantee that in that very moment we can ask and receive God’s grace. This truth is embedded in an Old Testament parallel verse, Leviticus 26:12, where God promises, \u201cI will walk among you and be Your God, and you will be My people. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians; I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled<\/em> you to walk with heads held high.\u201d God the Holy Spirit is the Enabler<\/em>, and He will give us what we need to walk with Him this day if we only ask and obey. When we consciously seek the things of the Spirit, our spirits will yield and our ungodly desires will subside.<\/p>\n “LORD I choose to walk by Your Spirit this day. I choose to deny myself, take up my cross, and follow you.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n =============================================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n Numbers 11 KJV<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1<\/sup>\u00a0And\u00a0when\u00a0<\/em>the people complained, it displeased the\u00a0LORD: and the\u00a0LORD\u00a0heard\u00a0it;<\/em>and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the\u00a0LORD\u00a0burnt among them, and consumed\u00a0them that were\u00a0<\/em>in the uttermost parts of the camp.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a02<\/sup>\u00a0And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the\u00a0LORD, the fire was quenched.\u00a0\u00a03<\/sup>And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the\u00a0LORD\u00a0burnt among them.\u00a04<\/sup>\u00a0And the mixt multitude that\u00a0was\u00a0<\/em>among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a05<\/sup>\u00a0We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:\u00a06<\/sup>\u00a0But now our soul\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>dried away:\u00a0there is\u00a0<\/em>nothing at all, beside this manna,\u00a0before\u00a0<\/em>our eyes.\u00a07<\/sup>\u00a0And the manna\u00a0was\u00a0<\/em>as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium.\u00a0\u00a08<\/sup>\u00a0And\u00a0<\/em>the people went about, and gathered\u00a0it\u00a0<\/em>, and ground\u00a0it\u00a0<\/em>in mills, or beat\u00a0it\u00a0<\/em>in a mortar, and baked\u00a0it\u00a0<\/em>in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.\u00a09<\/sup>\u00a0And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it. 10<\/sup>\u00a0Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of the\u00a0LORD\u00a0was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased.\u00a011<\/sup>\u00a0And Moses said unto the\u00a0LORD, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me?\u00a012<\/sup>\u00a0Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?\u00a013<\/sup>\u00a0Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.\u00a014<\/sup>\u00a0I am not able to bear all this people alone, because\u00a0it is\u00a0<\/em>too heavy for me.\u00a015<\/sup>\u00a0And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness. 16<\/sup>\u00a0And the\u00a0LORD\u00a0said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee.\u00a017<\/sup>\u00a0And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>upon thee, and will put\u00a0it\u00a0<\/em>upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear\u00a0it\u00a0<\/em>not thyself alone.\u00a018<\/sup>\u00a0And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow, and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in the ears of the\u00a0LORD, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for\u00a0it was\u00a0<\/em>well with us in Egypt: therefore the\u00a0LORD\u00a0will give you flesh, and ye shall eat.\u00a019<\/sup>\u00a0Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days;\u00a020<\/sup>\u00a0But<\/em>even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the\u00a0LORD\u00a0which\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?\u00a0\u00a021<\/sup>\u00a0And Moses said, The people, among whom I\u00a0am\u00a0<\/em>,\u00a0are\u00a0<\/em>six hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.\u00a022<\/sup>\u00a0Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?\u00a023<\/sup>\u00a0And the\u00a0LORD\u00a0said unto Moses, Is the\u00a0LORD\u2019Shand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not. 24<\/sup>\u00a0And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the\u00a0LORD, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tabernacle.\u00a025<\/sup>\u00a0And the\u00a0LORD\u00a0came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that\u00a0was\u00a0<\/em>upon him, and gave\u00a0it\u00a0<\/em>unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass,\u00a0that\u00a0<\/em>, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease.\u00a026<\/sup>But there remained two\u00a0of the\u00a0<\/em>men in the camp, the name of the one\u00a0was\u00a0<\/em>Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the spirit rested upon them; and they\u00a0were\u00a0<\/em>of them that were written, but went not out unto the tabernacle: and they prophesied in the camp.\u00a027<\/sup>\u00a0And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.\u00a028<\/sup>\u00a0And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses,\u00a0one\u00a0<\/em>of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.\u00a029<\/sup>\u00a0And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the\u00a0LORD\u2019S\u00a0people were prophets,\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>that the\u00a0LORD\u00a0would put his spirit upon them!\u00a030<\/sup>\u00a0And Moses gat him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel. 31<\/sup>\u00a0And there went forth a wind from the\u00a0LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let\u00a0them\u00a0<\/em>fall by the camp, as it were a day\u2019s journey on this side, and as it were a day\u2019s journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits\u00a0high<\/em>upon the face of the earth.\u00a0\u00a032<\/sup>\u00a0And the people stood up all that day, and all\u00a0that<\/em>night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread\u00a0them\u00a0<\/em>all abroad for themselves round about the camp.\u00a033<\/sup>\u00a0And while the flesh\u00a0was\u00a0<\/em>yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the\u00a0LORD\u00a0was kindled against the people, and the\u00a0LORD\u00a0smote the people with a very great plague.\u00a034<\/sup>\u00a0And he called the name of that place Kibroth-hattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.\u00a0\u00a035<\/sup>\u00a0And\u00a0<\/em>the people journeyed from Kibroth-hattaavah unto Hazeroth; and abode at Hazeroth.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How quickly the Israelites had forgotten what their fish and tossed salads had cost them while they were in Egypt. 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