"Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did."
It is a sad reality that naturally we all desire evil. Our sinful nature lusts after evil. We are greedy for bad things. It is a universal reality.
Some former coworkers of mine have a very cute daughter. When she was younger, I called her the Touchinator because she would try to touch everything in sight. Her parents allowed her to explore most of the time, but when she started examining the water cooler, which contained instant boiling water, they strongly protested. After being told not to touch the cooler, the little girl seemed to have an insatiable desire to play with it. She was greedy for wrong even though the wrong would hurt her.
We are just as foolish. So God recorded examples of people suffering because of wrongdoing that we would "not desire evil as they did" and as we do naturally.
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