10:1-5 - Paul explains that you can be deeply involved in spiritual things and still displease God. The root of pleasing God is obedience and motive. When you read, pray, give, serve, but refuse to obey He is not pleased. When you do all of those things and your heart is angry, selfish, proud, etc God is not pleased. If we would understand what God wants from us we would see that the stuff we do is not the issue. It is our heart that is the issue. And if our hearts our right we would do the stuff to help us walk in Christ with a great heart.
10:6 - Now these things occurred as examples to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did.
10:7-10 - Paul explains that we need to NOT do what the Israelites did. He highlights 4 things to not do or be: idolaters, sexually immoral, testing Christ with our disobedience and grumbling. And then he follows it up with a verse in 12 that reminds us we have to be careful we don't think we are doing good when we aren't. I tie that verse back to these 4 things and say check these in your life carefully, because they are the main sources of stumbling.
10:12 - So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall.
10:13 - Nothing has or will overtake you that you can't find a way through it in Christ. NOTHING!
10:14-22- You cannot mix godliness and sinfulness.
10:23 - We need to make decisions not based on can we or do we have the right or the money, but based on what is beneficial and constructive to our faith and to the lives of others.
10:31 - So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. - How many things would you quit doing if you only did things for the glory of God? How would it change your attitude if you only did things for the glory of God? How would that change the outcome? We say we are doing everything we do for God, but we need to carefully look through our motives. When we do all that we do for the glory of God we will suffer and yet celebrate.
Love, Michael
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