Thought for the day : Run to get the Prize—a crown that will last forever. Warning:Do not set your heart on evil.

1 Cor. 9: 24 ~ 27 ; 10:1~10
24 You know that in a race all the runners run but only one wins the prize, don’t you? You must run in such a way that you may be victorious.

25 Everyone who enters an athletic contest practices self-control in everything. They do it to win a wreath that withers away, but we run to win a prize that[j] never fades.

26 That is the way I run, with a clear goal in mind. That is the way I fight, not like someone shadow boxing.

27 No, I keep on disciplining my body, making it serve me so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not somehow be disqualified.

10:1~10
1 Now I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, of the fact that all of our ancestors who left Egypt[a] were under the cloud. They all went through the sea,

2 and they all were immersed 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 rock that went with them. That rock was the Messiah.[b]

5 But God wasn’t pleased with most of those people,[c] and so they were struck down in the wilderness.

6 Now their experiences serve as examples for us so that we won’t set our hearts on evil as they did.

7 Let’s stop being idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to play.”[d]

8 Let’s stop sinning sexually, as some of them were doing, and on a single day 23,000 fell dead.

9 Let’s stop putting the Lord[e] to the test, as some of them were doing, and were destroyed by snakes.

10 You must stop complaining, as some of them were doing, and were annihilated by the destroyer.

Meditation ( 10 Min)
1. What does this passage says?
2. What has God reveals to me about God?  Teaching about the Christian life?
3. What does God want me to do?

Prayer ( 10 Min)
1. Praise : Praise God for His attributes.
2. Thanksgiving : Thank him for what he has done.
3. Confession : Confess any sin that God reveals.
4. Supplication : Pray for your own needs.
5. Intercession : Pray for the needs of others.
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