Friday Reading: 1 Corinthians 10 1-6
Key Verse: 1 Corinthians 10 5
5 But with many of them God was not well pleased, for they were scattered in the wilderness.
5 But with many of them God was not well pleased, for they were scattered in the wilderness.
Devotion:
We may not be Jews, but there is no reason why we cannot learn from their past. We may not be from various races around the world, but we sure can learn from their mistakes. Yet, like so many people, we tend to ignore what other people go through because we all to often think that it cannot and does not apply to us because we are not them!
We may not be Jews, but there is no reason why we cannot learn from their past. We may not be from various races around the world, but we sure can learn from their mistakes. Yet, like so many people, we tend to ignore what other people go through because we all to often think that it cannot and does not apply to us because we are not them!
We don't only have to look at all the troubled times that people have been through to learn from them. We can look back at the good things that have happened and be encouraged and learn from them too. We can look back at the miracles that God has done for many to see that He is a loving God. We can look back at the people who were great men and women of God to find out how they lived their lives. It is not their physical lives that we should be searching, but their spiritual lives. It is not how they made or lost money, but how they communed with God that we need to find out more about.
We can look back at the people from the bible and learn just how much trouble they got into and think that we will never go there. But we can look at their spiritual side and know what we should be doing in ours. All too often in our lives we will loose sight of the spiritual and focus on the physical, only to be tripped up by that physical because it is all self centred or centred about evil instead of being centred around God.
We need to read our bibles to find out what people have done so that we can learn from those things that are recorded. It is no secret that people did things wrong. Those things are recorded so that we will not have to go through the same things in our lives... but we still think that it will never happen to us and ignore the warnings... to our peril...
Points to Ponder:
Do you look at people and say “that will never be me”?
What difference does God see between them and you?
Do you look at people and say “that will never be me”?
What difference does God see between them and you?