Follow His Lead

DEVOTION

1 CORINTHIANS

FOLLOW HIS LEAD

1 Cor 10:1-5

10:1 For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea. 2 They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. 3 They all ate the same spiritual food 4 and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.   5 Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered over the desert.

NIV

We are going to see what this introduction is all about but we must first see the truth here. Is there any excuse to be ignorant of the facts? It appears we should all know the truth, but what we do about it is entirely another thing. Here we see that God had provided them with everything they were going to need for their journey. This cloud was in fact his way of providing leadership for them to follow as well as a way to protect them from the scorching heat of the sun’s ray in the desert, where most men cannot live. Just as we are considered baptized in Christ, they were baptize in the covenant of Moses, the law. God did everything for them, took care of them, feed them brought them water, manna from heaven, quail from heaven, and water from rocks. How could they ever think God was not the most powerful awesome God that had the power and authority over all creation? But something went wrong, for we see that God was not pleased with them, and their bodies were scattered over the desert. What happened to them? What in the world did they do to get that kind of treatment from God? Why did he let them die all over the desert? Could we ever be in the same situation? We are going to see in the next verses what they had done and so we need to leave that for that to deal with? But we know it is not a good thing to be in a situation with God not being pleased with us. If we are in Christ, what would ever cause him to be unpleased? We are going to find out. But we should note that this truth is of his provisions for everything we need is true. We need not, or should not look to anything else for our provisions, especially ourselves. If we think for one minute that we are the source of what we have, we are in real danger. God is our source and we should never forget that, not ever. If we get puffed up because of our wealth it is because we think we are the source of it. If we act like we are someone special or better than others because of the quality or quantity of our homes, cars, clothes, or toys we are in massive danger. God has provided it all for a purpose, for a plan that he has for our life. He is leading us somewhere and we need to follow his lead.