*🙏The Word Daily Devotion 🙏*
(Global Evangelical Church)
*📖THE LITTLE DIRTY PLEASURES*
👉(Reading: Numbers 25:1-7)
🗓Wednesday, September 9
📜…These women invited them to attend sacrifices to their gods, so the Israelites feasted with them and worshiped the gods of Moab … * Number 25:2 (NLT)*
📋You discover from the passage that we do not have to be in certain types of gatherings or company. When the people of Israel loved pleasure more than the will of God, evil entered their camp. There are so many opportunities to defile ourselves in this world, but the wise refrain from them. The Israelites had been forewarned in Exodus 34:15-16, “You must not make a treaty of any kind with the people living in the land … They will invite you to join them in their sacrificial meals, and you will go with them. Then you will accept their daughters, who sacrifice to other gods, as wives for your sons. And they will seduce your sons to commit adultery …” Sin seduces. The Israelites were seduced because they did not heed the warning. “One of the people of Israel came and brought a Midianite woman to his family, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of the whole congregation of the people of Israel, while they were weeping in the entrance of the tent of meeting.” A young man brought his newest catch to his tent to enjoy! Gladly, Phinehas killed him. When sin becomes the norm our young people hardly recognise it as sin. Flee from every sinful lust and pleasure!
_*🛐Meditation And Prayer:*_ Lord, always make me wise and sensitive to nice but evil and sinful pleasures, so I can please you always.
_*📚Further Reading:*_ 1 Kings 11:2-4; Deuteronomy 7:3-4; 2 Corinthians 6:14-17
_*🔑Key Lesson:*_ Seductions surround us; we must avoid and resist them
_*◼The Bible in one year:*_ Daniel 1-3
