The Temptations in Your Life

Meditations in First Corinthians

May 30, 2022

The Temptations in Your Life 

The temptations in your life are no different from what others experience. And God is faithful. He will not allow the temptation to be more than you can stand. When you are tempted, he will show you a way out so that you can endure.

1 Corinthians 10:13

Read: 1 Corinthians 10:6-13

In today’s passage, Paul is continuing with the theme he opened in last Friday’s meditation. (May 27, 2022) In that meditation from 10:1-5, Paul took four parts of the Israelites exodus experience and connected them to life in the church in Corinth. In that passage, Paul alluded to many of the Jews dying in the wilderness because of their unfaithfulness, and in today’s passage he provides the details of the sins that caused them to fall away. In both passages, Paul connects Christ to the wilderness exodus.

In the closing verse in today’s reading, quoted above, Paul offers encouragement and hope for the followers of Christ. Yes, there will be temptations to surrender the ways of God and partake in the ways of the secular culture. But God will show you a way to resist these temptations. Recall Philippians 2:13,

For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him. (Emphasis mine)

Of course, the key here is to remember that first, last, and always, we are led by the Lord! And, secondly, we must recognize the temptation of sin. Karl Menninger (1893-1990) was an American psychiatrist and founder of the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas. In 1973, the famed psychiatrist wrote, "Whatever Became of Sin?" In the book, Menninger, a medical professional and not a theologian, warned that should the concept of sin become eliminated from open cultural discourse, any hope of a moral society would indeed vanish, and chaos would ensue.

My Takeaway: In the increasingly pagan culture of our society, will we avail ourselves of the help provided by God?

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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