Good Morning Friends,
“To the woman God said, ‘I will greatly
increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children.
Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.’ To Adam he
said, ‘Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded
you, “You must not eat of it,” Cursed is the ground because of you; through
painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce
thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the
sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since
from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.’” (Genesis
3:16-19)
Adam and Eve gave in to the temptation Satan
put before them. They didn’t get away with it! No matter how secret our sins,
we never get away with ours, either. As a result of their sin, God pronounced
curses upon them that would affect them and all other human beings.
To Eve, God pronounced pain upon childbirth
and that human relationships would never be the same again. Because of Eve’s
sin there is a natural tension between men and women. Woman can’t live without
man, she “desires” him, yet the relationship isn’t what it was before, as submission
enters the picture instead of partnership.
To Adam, God pronounced toil and adversity. Adam
and Eve had been living in a place of perfect provision. All of their needs
were met and life was easy. That would no longer be true. Toil replaced ease
and life took on a difficulty they had never known before. From that point on, life
would be tough for men and women. And death would overtake them, bringing great
pain to their lives.
All of these curses came into their lives and
ours because they rejected God’s leadership and direction and chose to follow
their own! They did so to their own peril and distress. And each time we choose
to reject God’s leadership and direction in order to follow our own, we find
the same results. Seeking freedom, we find bondage instead. Seeking pleasure,
we find pain at the end of the path instead.
When will we ever learn that God’s way is
always best?
His, by Grace,
Steve
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