Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate." ~~ (Gen 3:13)
"The serpent deceived me, and I ate." These words are very familiar to us. It was the start of it all, the fall of Adam and Eve and eventually the fall of us all. The cause of why we are all going to perish unless we come to God and receive His gift - eternal life.
Because of what Adam and Eve had done, we have to suffer. All the good things, all the blessings God intended them and for us vanished in an instant, all because of sin. A single disobedience, caused Adam to work hard on the field to be able to live. Eve has to suffer severe pain on childbirth. And how true is that today? God, didn't just spoke to Adam and Eve about this. He is speaking to all of us. We, being Adam and Eve's sons and daughters had inherited sin and therefore, it is our nature to sin. We are all sinners and what God gave as a punishment is also intedended for us.
As I read it again, there is one thing that had been lacking on God's and Adam and Eve's conversation. Wonder what it is? It was repentance. Eve didn't knew of repentance because she never sin before. After knowing that she had disobeyed God's command, she just confessed it honestly to God, but, (there is that big BUT in there), she never asked forgiveness from the Lord. She never said "Forgive me Lord, for I have disobeyed you." No, she never said that.
And that scenario is also evident and is very true today.Unless we come to God and ask for His forgiveness we have to suffer a lot and have to work hard because God's blessings is not in us. Before we have known God, before we had accepted Jesus Christ as our personal Savior and Lord, we never took our deeds seriously. We never saw what we are doing, that the wrong things we are doing are something that has to do with what we are gaining. We never saw our deeds as something offensive to the Lord. We were blinded, we were deceived. We thought that our actions are just fine, that it is alright to do them. That is why, we had never asked for forgiveness before. That is why there are times that we just acknowledge that it seemes we are doing the bad things yet still continue to do them.
God couldn't bless because of sin, because of disobedience. You see, after what Eve and Adam had done, what they had received were curses. That is also very true to us, unless sin is taken away from us, unless we are made pure again, we will never ba able to receive the blessings God had already prepared for us. Unless, we receive God's gift of forgiveness and eternal life through Jesus Christ, we will never see and receive the blessings God has in store for His children, for us.
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