daily devotionals for july 7th today's scripture reading will be first corinthians 10 verse 12.
therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall that's a powerful statement
and we all need to take heed because you know the lord gives us warnings of you know when we begin
boasting in self and thinking that we are better than other people we set ourselves up for failure
verse 6 says now these things became our examples to the intent that we should not lust after evil
things as they also lusted now paul is talking about the children of israel and how they became
idolaters remember moses is up on the mountain and the children of israel well aaron his brother
is there he's supposed to be guiding the children of israel keeping them out of trouble and yet
they provoked him and he ends up building that golden calf so the lord paul here is
saying don't become like them okay they get into sexual immor immorality and you know they begin to
grumble and complain and you know god hates that and also we're told not
to tempt the lord that's what they did they really tested him well they paid the price for it
and that's what the lord is saying here paul is saying to us through paul
that you know when you think that you've got it all that you know it all you know and
and pride can come into all of us at any time any one of us we're not exempt from it you know it's
who do we agree with do we do we agree with god and walk by faith and walk by love and trust him
and keep our trap shut you know that's hardest thing verse 13 here says no temptation has over
taken you except such as is common to man but god is faithful who will not allow you to be tempted
beyond what you are able but with the temptation will also make a way of escape that you
may be able to bear it now i believe you know we can all fall into temptation and the probably the
greatest temptation comes right here in our mind and then it's going to turn into what we speak
you know are we discerning by the spirit before we speak the real god gives us
an out an escape clause so to speak that escape is the cross you know i think before we speak
things out you know how the fullness the overflow the abundance of our heart
our mouth speaks so what is our what is our heart what's in our heart you know i
think a lot of times and i've done this i have a thought that is ungodly and i repent i repent
of that thought and i believe as jeremiah 6 talks about that but i repent of my thought
before i speak it out you know because i don't want to speak it out i should put it that way i
repent of the thought that i had because i don't want to turn it to turn into words and come out
of my mouth because once that word is out there it can be very damaging okay so back to the word
take heed take heed lest you fall
so discern by the spirit before we speak okay blessings to all till next time