Cultivate God-confidence

In 1 Corinthians we are reminded that the Israelites with Moses we treated to Heavenly food and drink daily from God. They even could see his presence from the cloud that went along with them everywhere they went. With all this support they should have been knocking it out of the park for God's kingdom. They had failure too. In the New Testament writings of Paul he reminds his readers of the past and uses it to encourage us today.

6-10The same thing could happen to us. We must be on guard so that we never get caught up in wanting our own way as they did. And we must not turn our religion into a circus as they did—"First the people partied, then they threw a dance." We must not be sexually promiscuous—they paid for that, remember, with 23,000 deaths in one day! We must never try to get Christ to serve us instead of us serving him; they tried it, and God launched an epidemic of poisonous snakes. We must be careful not to stir up discontent; discontent destroyed them.
11-12These are all warning markers—danger!—in our history books, written down so that we don't repeat their mistakes. Our positions in the story are parallel—they at the beginning, we at the end—and we are just as capable of messing it up as they were. Don't be so naive and self-confident. You're not exempt. You could fall flat on your face as easily as anyone else. Forget about self-confidence; it's useless. Cultivate God-confidence.