Food for thought! The stories of the Bible!!

  Hello my fellow Christians,

  I do hope all is well with you. God is good all the time, all the time God is good.  TOO BLESSED TO BE STRESSED!!!!

   Okay, we hear the stories of the Bible, we read or listen to them, then go on about our business.  But, have you really thought about them?  Well, have you?

   Let's look first at Adam and Eve.  We won't talk about how they came to be, but when they were in the garden.

  Genesis 3, the sin in the garden of man and woman.  First, satan comes disguised as a serpent and speaks to Eve. Genesis 3: Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

  Okay, satan is being subtil, aka sneaky. And he speaks to Eve.  Well, we know what happens here.  Yes, the sensory attributes of humans take over and when Eve sees the tree - the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit .

   Yes, how often do we let our eyes do the talking for our logic?  Well, let's move on.  She eats of the apple and so does Adam and then what happened?

Now here is the catcher -- 7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked;

They were naked before, no problem, but now what?  Have you ever done anything and then wished you had not?  Don't you imagine this is where Adam and Eve are now!

   Now God or Jesus (which many believe this to be), is  walking in the garden and he asks where they are.  Here is the response: 10 And he (Adam) said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.

  Then God (Jesus) asks who told you that you were naked?  Then comes the blame game, Adam blames Eve for giving him a bite, and he blames God because he says God created woman. The woman blames the serpent.  Anyway you know how this goes.  So, let us think of this in another way.

    You are given a perfect and beautiful home in the perfect location you chose.  You were told it was yours to do with as you please, except, don't let strangers in and never invite strangers in.  Then, in a moment of  weakness, you see a person outside the fence and through the gate.  That person is asking for just a small handout or a morsel of food.  So, you decide I'll let him in, what could it hurt.

   Well, your agreement was NO STRANGERS at all.  You did not adhere to the agreement. So, suddenly you are out of this beautiful home and cast into the street to work hard for a living.  You, in a moment of weakness, gave in to temptation.

   This is Adam and Eve.  Their instructions were: 3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.  Since they violated God's word, they were cast out of the garden of Eden and had to toil for a living.  How would you react?  I can only imagine that Adam and Eve were terribly sad, probably cried, and then wondered how they could have done this.  And, yep, they probably blamed each other for a while and had major arguments.  

   Again, what had God told them:  3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

   What do you think?  Do you think they were distraught, angry, and frustrated that they disobeyed God? Did they wail and cry?  Just food for thought.  I thought you might enjoy thinking beyond just the story we get in Sunday School.

  Thanks for reading. Love you all.

In Christ's Love and Grace

Johnny