Certainly we know that man has changed very little across human history. We are still tempted by the same desires. We are still committing the same atrocities. We are still falling into the same old snares and stumbles as we did hundreds and thousands of years ago. Along those same lines, Paul instructs the believers in Corinth to study what happened to our ancestors as they navigated through the wilderness from Egypt to the Promised Land. He admonishes them, and us, to understand that what they did lead them to incur God's wrath. Their stories were recorded so that we would learn from them and not follow their unholy examples:
1 Corinthians 10:9-11
nor let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents; nor complain, as some of them also complained, and were destroyed by the destroyer. Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come. [NKJV]
Sisters and brothers, it is time for us to ask ourselves the tough questions: Are we tempting Christ? Are we complaining about what God has chosen for our lives? Have we failed to learn from what our forefathers experienced?
We have their stories to learn from. Let us do just that ... learn from them. By doing so, we open our hearts to experience the mercy and blessing of our Father, the Great and Almighty God of Heaven and earth.
Be encouraged, Jose
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