Daily Sacrifice, January 29 (11:4)
“And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?”— Num. 11:4.
THE people of Israel, influenced by the murmurings of the mixed multitude, despised the manna and complained because they had no other food. They lusted for the delicacies of Egypt, but they forgot the taskmasters’ whips. When people get out of fellowship with God, the things of the world become attractive again. But Israel’s backslidings brought judgment, and this is ever the result of departure in heart from the Lord (Prov. 14:14).
―L. Oakley.