Joni and Friends Daily Devotional 18 October 2021, Monday Message
TOPIC: I’d Never Do That!
SCRIPTURE:“So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don’t fall!” – 1 Corinthians 10:12
MESSAGE: You’ll never catch me doing that!” one might say. “Oh yeah?”
Upright and obedient, Noah stood alone against a carousing, lustful world that drank itself silly. Who would have thought Noah would end up drunk? Abraham was ready to push obedience to the point of sacrificing his only son. Who would imagine he would lie straight-faced?
Look at Lot standing against the filthiness of Sodom. Hardly does he get delivered from the city’s destruction than he falls into incest. Who would have guessed? Bold and courageous David was brave enough to go up against Goliath, the warrior giant of the Philistines; later on he made believe that he was a madman for fear of his enemies.
Consider Elijah. We take him to be a rather brave man, wielding the sword of God’s vengeance against tens of thousands. But the threat of one woman then sends him into suicidal despair. Peter, as part of the inner circle, followed the footsteps of Jesus closer than anyone. He ended up cursing and denying the Lord.
“These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come” (1 Corinthians 10:11).
Just when you think you know yourself, you do or say something that seems so out of character. But it’s not. The character of our body of sin and death is to sin. Don’t be surprised. Just be careful that you, too, don’t fall.
Lord, please subdue my corruptions and grant me the grace to live above them. Make me realize that I could easily fall at any time. May I lean on your grace to deliver me from the evil in my life, of which I’m not even aware.
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Joni and Friends Daily Devotional 18 October 2021 was taken from Diamonds in the Dust – By Joni Eareckson Tada
