"Unquestionable"

"In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire." (Psalms 78:14) If only we had it so easy, to know exactly which way we should go, or when to go and when to stop. But you know, I think we do. If we are walking in the Spirit, we have the ability to know where God is asking us to go, or what God is asking us to do. On the other hand, if we are walking in the flesh, it is pretty hard for us to determine what we are doing or where we are going, let alone know anything about what God wants us to do. There really is a very fine line between walking in the Spirit or in the flesh; you can literally be in the Spirit one moment and in the flesh the next, it's just a matter of which way you choose to go; into the way of God, or into the way of the world, they are completely opposite directions, but they have the same dividing line. So, the thing I gather from Paul's warning in 1 Corinthians 10, is that we all need to understand how easily we can be pulled back into the world; after all, we are still just human, and we still have desires to satisfy our flesh, in one way or another. Where we continually mess up, is thinking desire has something to do with sin, as if we have somehow crossed the line into sin, so we might as well just fulfill the desire of the flesh. What a dirty trick our minds play on us! How is it possible to be tricked into sin? or to give into the desire of the flesh? Desire is nothing more than our opportunity to obey God and deny our flesh! It is our personal chance to win a battle going on inside, a battle between the flesh and the Spirit. The question that is created on the battlefield is one of choice: do I desire to please God, or do I desire to please myself? The desire to please myself is always going to be there, lurking in the shadows and stirring up thoughts in our minds; but the desire to please God is brought on by the Holy Spirit, which has far more power to overcome, if we would just turn to His side, and turn away from our fleshly desires. But nooooo! We like pleasing ourselves so much more than we like to please God! I heard a really good example of sin being fun. I forget who said it, but I thought it was pretty spot-on. They said, "It might be fun to jump off the Empire State Building, that is, until you hit that ground." That is pretty much the reason they put those safety nets and barricades to prevent people from jumping off; they might think it would be fun, but when they hit the ground it's going to leave a mark...
"These things happened as a warning to us, so that we would not crave evil things as they did, or worship idols as some of them did. As the Scriptures say, "The people celebrated with feasting and drinking, and they indulged in pagan revelry." And we must not engage in sexual immorality as some of them did, causing 23,000 of them to die in one day. Nor should we put Christ to the test, as some of them did and then died from snakebites. And don't grumble as some of hem did, and then were destroyed by the angel of death. These things happened to them as examples for us. They were written down to warn us who live at the end of the age. If you think you are standing strong, be careful not to fall. The temptations in your life are no different from what others experience. And God is faithful. He will not allow the temptation to be more than you can stand. When you are tempted, he will show you a way out so that you can endure." (1 Corinthians 10:6-13) NLT