Written Down
To Instruct Us
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.
Nevertheless, 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.
1 Corinthians 10:1-12
The pain of falling is always painful, and you can fall in an
instant. From falling we learn painful lessons. We don’t want it to happen
again. Falling isn’t good. But for anyone who has stumbled in life, something
positive can result – if the fall leads to a more careful way of living.
If you have stumbled along the course of life’s journeys, there
is hope for you. Ask God for guidance. Read His Word and begin to live
carefully by its principles.
Have you fallen?
Ask God to help you get up
and keep from falling again.
Our Daily Bread –