It is hard to imagine life on earth before sin and shame. It is difficult to comprehend the devastation caused by one bite. However, when i read the account I am immediately reminded that the schemes used to mess us up in sin are still the same. Get us to question God, and His word (vs. 1). Get us to doubt God, and His word (vs. 4). Manipulate the word of God to cause us to believe it says something it does not (vs. 5). Put something in front of us that appeals to our sight, desires, and dreams (vs. 6). As you read the story you want to yell out, "Don't do it!" "It will mess up everything! For you and for me!"
I wish someone would yell those same words into my life. I shamefully see instances in my life where I fall for the same simple schemes. I pray that I will live more cautiously with a greater sense of the pain and destructiveness caused by by willful sin.
Monday, March 22, 2010
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