1 Corinthians 10:12
"Wherefore let him that thinketh he
standeth take heed lest he fall."
Paul insists on the need of vigilance. "Let him who thinks he stands secure take care lest he fall." Again and again a fortress has been stormed because its defenders thought that it could not be over taken. In Rev 3:3 the risen Christ warns the Church of Sardis to be on the watch. The fortified height of Sardis was built on a jutting spur of rock that was thought to be a hard point of entry for their enemies. When Cyrus was besieging it, he offered a special reward to any who could find a way in. A certain soldier, Hyeroeades by name, was watching one day and saw a soldier in the Sardian garrison drop his helmet accidentally over the wall and down the rugged cliffs below. He saw him climb down after it and marked his path. That night he led a band up the cliffs by that very path and when they reached the top they found it quite unguarded; so they entered in and captured the citadel, which had been counted too safe. Life is a chancy business; we must be ever on the watch.
With the temptation there is always a way of escape. The word (ekbasis), in the Greek language It means a way out of a defile, a mountain pass. The idea is of an army apparently surrounded and then suddenly seeing an escape route to safety. My Friends, in our walk with Christ there is no difference. No man needs to fall to any temptation, for with the temptation there is the way out, and the way out is not the way of surrender nor of retreat, but the way of conquest in the power of the grace of God.
Amen!
Reading: (1 Cor. 10:1-13)
May God Bless You
And Your Families
Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.
The Cross Life Ministry
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