TUESDAY, December 2nd, 2008

Hey Guys! Today is 300 DEVOTIONS!!!!! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? Great Job Yesterday! Let's keep it up into the holidays and get this whole devotions thing rolling again!

I am buying a new car today: go to my blog to see pictures: leetomlin.com

A Few Thoughts From Yesterday:
Michael: I love you man, but I am going to start deleting your comments after the 25th one that you post every day!!!! you are messing with my head when you post like 5 comments!
Tyler: Good to see you on here man! Keep it up! When are you guys going to come and spend the night?
Jessica M: Hey girl! great thoughts! Self control is so important! I was talking with someone yesterday who says they go to the gym for two hours a day every day! I was like WOW! That is some serious self discipline... I need more of that kind of self control!! STAY FOCUSED!! :)
AZN Master: I did not think that an asian master would have a little white cat for his profile picture... interesting!

I Corinthians 10

1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
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.
8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
11 Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.

This passage is full of stuff! Let me explain the first part: It begins by saying I do not want you to be ignorant about God's chosen people in the wilderness... They were spiritual just like us, they ate the same food we did, they prayed just like we did, they sang songs just like we did... but they DID NOT PLEASE GOD!!!! WOW! They do many things just like we do, but they were not pleasing God. Why not? Well we see that they were involved in alot of sin... they were in lust, idolatery, fornication, complaining, and they tempted Christ. Well, because of their sin, they did not please God... so Paul reminds us in the rest of this passage that we DO NOT HAVE TO SIN!!!! He tell us that thee is no temptation that has taken us that we cannot escape it! We can say no to every temptation that we face... How do I know that? Because God says that he will not allow us to be tempted y something that is way more than we can handle! Seriously! God allows certain temptations, because He KNOWS THAT WE CAN CHOOSE TO DO RIGHT in that circumstance! If you are facing temptation today: remember that God is giving you a chance to please Him and HE KNOWS THAT YOU CAN! DO IT!