He Will Not Let You
Be Tested Beyond Your
Strength
I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our
ancestors were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all
were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same
spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For
they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.
Novertheless, God was not pleased with most of them,
and they were struck down in the wilderness.
Now these things occurred as examples for us, so that we might
not desire evil as they did. Do not become idolaters as some of them did; as it
is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play.”
We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three
thousand fell in a single day. We must not put Christ to the test, as some of
them did, and were destroyed by serpents. And do not complain as some of them
did, and were destroyed by the destroyer. These things happened to them to
serve as an example, and they were written down to instruct us, on whom the
ends of the ages have come. So if you think you are standing, watch out that
you do not fall. No testing has overtaken you that is
not common to everyone. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tested
beyond your strength, but with the testing he will also provide the way out so
that you may be able to endure it.
1 Corinthians 10:1-13
Some of the great temptations that roar around us will leave us
unharmed, while a small and seemingly insignificant incident may cause our
downfall. We can become careless and not recognize the potential for disaster
all around us. We mistakenly think we are secure.
We must always be on guard against
temptation.
Whenever we fall, it is usually at the
point
where we think we are strong.
Our Daily Bread –