So wow i had a really good bible study with my dad today. So basically we went over Genesis 3. I was really blown away. I stand in awe of God's love and righteousness. He cursed man and woman and banished them from the Garden because of their disobedience. He could not tolerate sin. He doesn't negotiate with it. He just says plainly to Satan "he will crush your head". Satan who was one of God's top angels, "the model of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty." But God's love does prevail. When Adam and Eve hide He does not come out angry and exterminate them, He just simply walks into the garden in the cool of the day and sadly calls out "Where are you?". God is heart broken. Adam and Eve are not in the same place they were once in their relationship with God. God makes them garments of skin suggesting he killed an animal. The same animals that Adam and Eve lovingly worked with in the garden and the ones that they knew God also dearly loved. God banishes them from the garden because he doesn't want them to eat of the tree of life, for if they do they would have to live their cursed life forever. Though sad, God already had a plan to redeem man when he said "he will crush your head and you will strike his heel."
And now we're living this promise. The whole story of the Bible comes out of this one event. Every event in the Bible and even events happening now are for the restoration of man, that same perfectness of the garden, and God's image and glory, but this time it will be way better.
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wow!
ReplyDeleteI have to let this sink in.
It'll be so good! We have to usher in Jesus!