1 Corinthians 10: 1 I don’t want you to forget, dear brothers and sisters, about our ancestors in the wilderness long ago. All of them were guided by a cloud that moved ahead of them, and all of them walked through the sea on dry ground. 2 In the cloud and in the sea, all of them were baptized as followers of Moses. 3 All of them ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all of them drank the same spiritual water. For they drank from the spiritual rock that traveled with them, and that rock was Christ. 5 Yet God was not pleased with most of them, and their bodies were scattered in the wilderness. 6 These things happened as a warning to us, so that we would not crave evil things as they did, 7 or worship idols as some of them did. As the Scriptures say, “The people celebrated with feasting and drinking, and they indulged in pagan revelry.” 8 And we must not engage in sexual immorality as some of them did, causing 23,000 of them to die in one day.

how often do we crave evil things? how often do we admit it.. how often do we realize that many of the things we crave are evil.... things really never change... those people battled the same battles that we battle today... they wanted to drink and feast.. they wanted to engage in sexual immorality.... isn't that really what our battles are? most of our sins are either sexual... or drinking... or drug induced... pagan revelry.. I would imagine that would be some of the other big 10.... idk... but that is what I would imagine.. most of us really don't battle with wanting to murder someone.. or stealing... (maybe...) but we battle sexual immorality.. we battle gluttony.. we battle drunkenness... we battle coveting someone's belongings.. we battle gossip and lies.. we battle being mean to other people... wouldn't you think these are many of the same things they were battling? so here we are.. thousands of years later.. still doing the same things.. the times have changed.. but our sins have not... we are still who we were thousands of years ago....
this scripture says that they went through these things so that we would learn from them... a warning to us... are we warned? are we learning from other people's mistakes? not usually... we all seem to learn from smacking our own head against the wall.. usually more than once...


9 Nor should we put Christ to the test, as some of them did and then died from snakebites. 10 And don’t grumble as some of them did, and then were destroyed by the angel of death. 11 These things happened to them as examples for us. They were written down to warn us who live at the end of the age

what about grumbling and complaining.... I have to admit.. I am very guilty of this... I get my eyes off of Jesus and get in my emotions and feel like I have changed so much.. I work so hard for the Lord.. why don't I have what is mine... why am I still battling for the things God has promised....
their lives are to be a warning.. yet are we warned?

at least once a week.. I come home from work and spend the evening with just me and Jesus.. no tv.. no radio.. nothing but the bible and prayer and peace and contentment.. I find this equips me for the rest of the week.. some weeks I need to do this more than once.. LOL... I am needing this time today... I am not going to get it until thursday.. but I miss Jesus.. I miss Him like some women miss a man... I just want to be with Him... I often think that these "date nights" with the Lord keep me out of much of the things I may be likely to fall prey to.... and I am so thankful that He is available every time I am able to meet with Him...