Genesis 3 (9-13) New King James Version
9 Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him,
“Where are you?” 10 So he said, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was
afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.” 11 And He said, “Who told you
that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that
you should not eat?” 12 Then the man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with
me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.” 13 And the Lord God said to the woman,
“What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I
ate.”
Adam and Eve knew they were not to eat from the Tree of
the Knowledge of Good and Evil; yet they chose to do so. They made a choice
knowing there was a severe consequence that went along with their choice. Santa
used the same lie with Adam and Eve he had formerly used with himself; I can
become God. Adam and Eve bought into the lie and fell from grace just as Satan
had bought into his own lie and fell from grace.
Every day in life we face choices. Most of those choices
have consequences, either good or bad, that come as a result of the actions we take.
When we make a choice, we are the one deciding if the consequence seems more
valuable that the action. Sometimes we choose unwisely and find the consequence
was not worth the value we initially believed. We find ourselves wanting to
hide from that choice, but it has already been made.
Adam and Eve attempted to hide their choice from God.
They thought they could hide in the garden and God would not know what they had
done. Yet Adam gave himself away by saying he was naked, which was something he
had never been aware of before. God then asked Adam, “Who told you that you
were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you
should not eat?”
Look at Adam’s response. Instead of accepting
responsibility for his own actions he says, “The woman whom You (God) gave to
be with me, she gave me of the tree.” In other words it’s not my fault God you
put me with this woman. It’s because of her I made that choice. You can’t blame
me I’m just a victim.
Then we see Eve’s response, “The serpent deceived me.” Eve has fallen into the same trap as Adam.
Instead of taking responsibility for her actions she places the blame on the
serpent. I can only wonder what would have happened if Adam and Eve accepted
responsibility for their bad choice and had asked God for forgiveness.
Remember this in your daily interactions with others. Try
not to shift blame to others when clearly the choice was yours. Accept
responsibility for your actions and ask for forgiveness in order to make things
right.
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