Hi Peeps,
Today’s Quote
“There are no shortcuts to producing quality work, studying properly on time, and learning Good life lessons for thorough training, practicing and preparation.” ~Jon Barnes
The Number
There are a number of steps you can take to achieve and master a goal and cross the finish line. Try not to waste steps, as you may need them to finish the race. The extra steps you save can be used to help others cross the finish line as well. God knows how many steps you need and He knows how many you will share, for the greater Good.
Winning Hand
As a kid, I would gamble my winning hand away, because I thought the grass was greener on the other side of the Shortcut, only to find out that I was a FOOL. Hold onto God and your winning hand. Don’t show everyone your cards, just smile and love them. The devil will try to steal your deal, with both your eyes opened and focused on him. Don’t blink or give up your winning hand!
The Dealer
God is the dealer of the deck from the Universe He has Created. I can personally say, Thank You God for the hand that I have and there is never a need to gamble or lust after something that is not mine or in my hand. I don’t want anything else. Be content, thankful, and satisfied. Lazy people gamble, trying to enslave, cheat, or steal, by using shortcuts, illusions, and other schemes or scams. You’ve been warned!
Today’s Question
Are you paying attention to God, The Dealer in your life with all of the answers and solutions?
Enjoy Today’s Reading.
1 Corinthians 10
Warnings From Israel’s History
10 For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors 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 rockthat accompanied them, and that rock was Christ. 5 Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.
6 Now these things occurred as examples to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did. 7 Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.”[a] 8 We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did—and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died. 9 We should not test Christ,[b] as some of them did—and were killed by snakes. 10 And do not grumble, as some of them did—and were killed by the destroying angel.
11 These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the culmination of the ages has come. 12 So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don’t fall! 13 No temptation[c] has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted[d] beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted,[e] he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.
Idol Feasts and the Lord’s Supper
14 Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry. 15 I speak to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say. 16 Is not the cup of thanksgiving for which we give thanks a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ? 17 Because there is one loaf, we, who are many, are one body,for we all share the one loaf.
18 Consider the people of Israel: Do not those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar? 19 Do I mean then that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything? 20 No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons. 21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in both the Lord’s table and the table of demons. 22 Are we trying to arouse the Lord’s jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
The Believer’s Freedom
23 “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but not everything is constructive. 24 No one should seek their own good, but the good of others.
25 Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience, 26 for, “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.”[f]
27 If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat whatever is put before you without raising questions of conscience. 28 But if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not eat it, both for the sake of the one who told you and for the sake of conscience. 29 I am referring to the other person’s conscience, not yours. For why is my freedom being judged by another’s conscience? 30 If I take part in the meal with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of something I thank God for?
31 So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. 32 Do not cause anyone to stumble, whether Jews, Greeks or the church of God— 33 even as I try to please everyone in every way. For I am not seeking my own good but the good of many, so that they may be saved.
Love,
Jonathan
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