Text:
Numbers 11:4-10
Memory Verse:
“We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic” (Numbers 11:5).
Leeks, like onions, are mentioned only once in the Bible and then only in association with the fruits of Egypt in contrast to the heavenly manna. Leeks onions, melons and cucumbers in Numbers 11:5 are symbolic of the works of the flesh and the old nature. When Moses delivered Israel, they
went out of Egypt, but Egypt did not go out of them. Egypt was still in them, though they were no longer in Egypt. This is the picture of our salvation. When we are saved, we do not immediately lose our old nature; we receive a new nature which must ultimately overcome the old man. Instead it teaches that every believer has two natures; the old received by natural birth from father Adam and the new received in the new birth by the Spirit of God.
Paul tells us that “the flesh lusts against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another” (Galatians 5:17). Every true born again believer is conscious of this struggle between the flesh and the Spirit;
between the appetite for leeks and learning to feed upon the manna. When you engage in activities of the flesh, you feed on leeks, but reading the Bible, fasting and prayers feeds your spirit man.
Someone once said, “a man is what he eats.” Will you take a careful inventory and seriously examine your spiritual growth today? How much time do you give for the word, prayer and witnessing?
Prayer Points:
1. I have come out of Egypt, I will never go back.
2. Deliver me from old habits, O Lord.