Great blessings are often followed by great temptations.

蒙福之后，要小心试探，避免跌倒。

If you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don’t fall! 

1 Corinthians 10:12

所以自己以为站得稳的，须要谨慎，免得跌倒。-哥林多前书10章12节

When my friend Elaine was recovering after a bad fall, a hospital worker placed a bright yellow bracelet on her wrist. It read: Fall Risk. That phrase meant: Watch this person carefully. She may be unsteady on her feet. Help her get from place to place.

朋友伊莲因为摔伤而入院治疗，一位医疗人员将标示着“避免跌倒”的亮黄色手环戴在她的手腕上。意思就是：“请务必小心照顾看护这名病患，她可能站不稳。当她需要走动时，请给予协助。”

First Corinthians 10 contains something like a “Fall Risk” warning for believers. With a glance back at his ancestors, Paul noted the human potential to fall into sin. The Israelites complained, worshiped idols, and had immoral relationships. God grew unhappy with them and allowed them to experience consequences for their wrongdoing. However, Paul said, “These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us . . . . So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don’t fall!” (vv. 11–12).

在哥林多前书10章，也有类似“避免跌倒”的警戒。当保罗回顾古时以色列百姓的经历时，他指出所有人都可能会跌倒犯罪。以色列百姓发怨言、拜偶像和行奸淫，使上帝对他们发怒，让他们面对罪所带来的后果。所以保罗说：“他们遭遇这些事都要作为鉴戒，并且写在经上，正是警戒我们这末世的人。所以，自己以为站得稳的，须要谨慎，免得跌倒。” (哥林多前书10章11-12节)

It’s easy to trick ourselves into believing that we’re done with a particular sort of sin. Even when we’ve struggled through the worst of it—admitting our problem, repenting, and recommitting ourselves to following God’s ways—temptation may come calling. God makes it possible for us to avoid falling back into the same patterns. He does this by providing a way out of the sinful act we’re considering. Our part is to respond to His offer of escape.

有时我们会自己欺哄自己，以为我们再也不会犯同样的罪，因为我们已经认罪、悔改，并重新下定决心，愿意遵守上帝的命令，可是同样的试探仍然会来诱惑我们，使我们犯罪。但上帝能为我们开路，让我们不再陷入同样的泥沼之中。我们只需回应上帝，并让祂带领我们远离试探。

Lord, let me see the way of escape 

You offer when I am tempted. 

Give me the strength to accept Your help 

so I can stay faithful to You. 

I know this is Your desire for me, 

and I thank You that You are at work in me.

 主，当我受试探，求祢让我看见祢已为我开路。
求祢赐我力量愿接受祢的帮助，
好让我能忠心地跟随祢，因我深知这将讨祢喜悦。
感谢祢，因祢在我里面动工。

Read：1 Corinthians 10:1-13 New International Version (NIV)

Warnings From Israel’s History

10 For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea. 2 They were all baptized 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 accompanied them, and that rock was Christ. 5 Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.

6 Now these things occurred as examples to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did. 7 Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.” 8 We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did—and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died. 9 We should not test Christ,as some of them did—and were killed by snakes. 10 And do not grumble, as some of them did—and were killed by the destroying angel.

11 These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the culmination of the ages has come.12 So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don’t fall!13 No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted[d] beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted,he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.

整理：于姊妹