Yet God was not pleased with most of them, and their bodies were scattered in the wilderness. 

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...

1 Corinthians 10:5-7 NLT

Paul just described how all their ancestors when in the wilderness had the same environment, the same inputs, the same leadership, yet most of them died there because their hearts were not really after God at all. 

Something different was going on outside than what was going on inside.

It's not about our family, upbringing, what church we go to or how often. 

It's a heart thing. 

Where, to whom, are our hearts oriented?

What is our trajectory? 

The good thing is we get to set that trajectory every day, we get to choose the orientation of our heart every day, and to live it out in the small everyday things that we do...how we greet one another, see one another, reach out and encourage one another...how we love one another.

#corinthians

#choose

#itsaheartthing

#ourchoicesmatter