Some of Them

I remember years ago about kdjkj years ago when I was 15. My dad and I were driving down the road and I of course I was behind the wheel; window rolled down arm out the window and yes driving with one hand. My Dad said to me on that day “Son do you think you are a good enough driver to just be driving with one hand?” Then he told me to get both hands on the wheel or he would take over and drive. Know what I was doing? I had become a little overconfident with that ton of steel I was in control of. Know what my Dad was doing? He was giving me an ensample to follow because you will always have more control with both hands on the wheel than just one. That reminds me that sometimes I get a little overconfident in my spiritual life. I think I know all the dangers and say things like “I will never let anything like that happen to me.” Only to find out later that I did because I became overconfident thinking I know all the tricks and formulas. In I Corinthians chapter 10 verse 11 we read these words… Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: What things? 1Corinthians 10:6  Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. 1Corinthians 10:7  Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. 1Corinthians 10:8  Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. 1Corinthians 10:9  Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents. 1Corinthians 10:10  Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer. Here were Gods children that were eyewitnesses to miracles. They had been led daily by God with the pillar of cloud in the day time and the pillar of fire in the night time. By day God kept them cool under the cloud and at night God kept them warn under the fire. Then bitterness toward God got in their hearts and some got involved with sexual sin. That’s what we are told “as some of them committed fornication, as some of them tempted Christ, as some of them murmured.”Maybe they got overconfident! Maybe I get overconfident maybe we all get overconfident and when that happens it’s like driving down the road with the window down and one hand on the wheel. No,No we have AC now; maybe it’s texting or talking on the cell phone but it still being overconfident. Then in verse 12 we read Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. Don’t get overconfident be Careful for we all have the possibility of becoming some of them.

"An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly"