CLEAR THE CROWD MATTHEW 9:18-26

Crowds obstruct movement, crowd is a disorganized gathering, it is unruly and noisy.

He needed to perform a miracle and He had to clear the crowd first, why?. He could have gone straight to business. Crowd will leave little or no room for movement. Crowd can be static at times, they are not moving, and they make it impossible for others to move. Crowd consist varieties of people, strange and with diverse mentalities, with different mindset and without a solution.

Funny enough, an individual can have a solution to the problem that caused them to gather as such, but because the crowd is too close to them or they are too close to the crowd, they find it hard to exclude themselves from the crowd.

Jesus saw the group of people who gathered to mourn the dead girl, they were making unnecessary noise that painted the atmosphere rough and not conducive for Him, He knew his mission there, He recognized an obstacle (the crowd), and cleared it. In life, the crowd, I will say, refer to those “guys” who doesn’t believe in what you can do, basically because they can’t do it, I see a crowd as the group of mediocre, they are always looking for more people to join their noise. They never take a positive step and if you dare to take one, they laugh at you as they did to Jesus.

A crowd can be that thing you are found of and you know for sure it’s not going to help your dream; crowd is anything at the door of your glory, anything standing in the way of fulfilling your destiny. Even when you start fulfilling your dream, you will meet a larger number of crowds of people who have set for themselves a limit; they’ve set a border and will assure you, you can’t cross it. But note one thing, people tell you it’s impossible because it hasn’t been possible for them, not because it is really impossible.

If you don’t start clearing the crowd now, the crowd will end up clearing you, “crowd exclude someone or something by taking their place.” Don’t waste your time trying to do it better, for some set of people who doesn’t know it better. You can’t escape crowd but you can clear them if they won’t let you move, when you are done with your mission, they will hear the news and they may gather (its their regular thing, they can’t help it).

Don’t be moved by the crowd, be moved by what you carry, Jesus could have joined them and pocket His miracle, then they all cry together and go back home, but no, He knew what they don’t know, He carried what is uncommon to them, but He didn’t perform a thing until He cleared the crowd. Until you leave some gatherings, like that of mediocrity, unbelief, sin, pleasure, “we can’t do much”, impossibility, you may not go far. They will influence you and you will soon find yourself thinking the way they do, acting like them and on the same level of achievement with them, no one dare to take the next step.

If the noisy crowd around you is your friend(s), clear them, when the time comes, they will come back after hearing the news of your achievement. The crowd can never be strong for you, they don’t know your worth, believe in God, believe in yourself, clear the crowd and take the next step.

Finally, according to Acts 20:8, there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they gathered together, in as much as there are crowds, there are lights, use the light, clear the crowd. Darkness need to be separated from light for a smooth journey.

Don’t stop until you’ve done what the crowd can’t do and until your light shines and none can resist.

Distinguish the light from the crowd. Dare to make a difference. Happy democracy day!!!