“For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.” Romans 15.4
Hope is something that you and I cannot live without. So, when you are reading the Bible and you see something and wonder, “Why is this in here?’, here is the reason: “For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning … ” You have a choice. You can LEARN from history or you can IGNORE it. To ignore it means you don’t care what others have experienced in the past. You are going to “do your own thing”, no matter the cost.
If I see someone whose life is “messed up” and I know how they got that way, I can either learn from what they did to get in a mess, or I can ignore everything I see and say it doesn’t matter. EVERYTHING in life matters. My first goal in life should be to glorify God and whatever comes into my life that doesn’t glorify God must be cast aside. If His glory is primary in my daily living, then the focus of my life is going to be Him and not me. Let’s make the deliberate effort today and every day to release the control of our lives to God’s Holy Spirit and see how the events that some and go will be controlled differently. Just my thoughts …