“For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ. Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.”
1 Corinthians 10:1-5 ESV

This one is pretty simple for me today, and although there were plenty of other teachable moments from the chapter, this point in particular was given to me this morning. ‘They drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ.’ And then it goes on to say that God was not pleased with most of them.

And so I must ask myself today, and everyday, who do I drink from? Christ or myself? Do I seek refreshment and renewal and strengthening in Him or am I trying, in vain, to sustain myself? Do I please God by relying on Him, or do I please self by pretending that I have the strength to stand on my own?

Plain and simple: Who am I trusting in? Who am I relying on? Am I fooling myself and giving the right answers at the right time, or have I actually surrendered myself to Him?

I hope I have. If not my efforts to GoLove others in Christ’s Name will be misguided attempts to puff myself up, and they will only point people to me, not Him.

What a disappointment that would be.