Life After Adam and Eve's Sin

02/27/2006

SPIRITUAL DIARY

My Worship Time                  Focus:  Life after Adam & Eve’s Sin

Bible Reading & Meditation             Reference:  Genesis 4:1-2

            Message of the verse:  “1 Now Adam slept with his wife, Eve, and she became pregnant. When the time came, she gave birth to Cain, and she said, "With the LORD’s help, I have brought forth a man!"  2  Later she gave birth to a second son and named him Abel. When they grew up, Abel became a shepherd, while Cain was a farmer.”

            At the end of the third chapter we find Adam and Eve run out of the garden so that they would not be able to eat of the tree of life, and now we find in this chapter that Adam and Eve are expecting a child and their first child they named Cain, which sounds like the Hebrew word for acquired.  Eve is thankful to the Lord for their first son, and she gives gave thanks to the Lord for their first son.  She then has another son and his name is Able which sounds like the Hebrew word for breath, and it can be seen from his name that life is but a breath. 

            In Dr. Wiersbe’s book on Genesis he writes a lot about work when going over the last part of verse two.  Some of the things that he writes about work is that it was not a curse to man that came after their sin, but God is seen as working when He created the earth, and He also told Adam to work in the garden after God created him.  Work is something that God has always intended for man to do, and it is important that we allow God to give us direction on the kind of work that He would want us to do, for when a person is in a job that he does not like then things can be very difficult on both he and also on his family.

            The New Testament has some things to say about work, and it can be seen throughout its pages people working for a living.  When Jesus came to earth to become a man He worked as a carpenter until it was time for Him to begin His ministry, and even that was work.  It is often spoke of what Jesus Christ did on the cross as His work on the cross, for indeed it was work, and as a matter of fact the most important work that was ever done on this earth.

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  There is something about having a job and doing the work on that job that really make life more satisfying to me.  When I went back to work at Ford there was not really a joy about it because it did not seem to me like that was where the Lord wanted me to be, but when I went to work for Tim a few years latter I had complete peace in doing that work because I sensed that this was truly where God wanted me to be.  Now as I work at the church with Sandy I am again satisfied with my job there, but still have a longing to work in a foreign field again like the one in Aruba and so I have not yet decided as to what it is that the Lord would have me to do, but in the mean time I will continue to pray about it and to seek God’s direction and also contentment in finding out what it is that God has for me to do as far as work.

The Word of God has challenged my heart as I read and studied it this morning.

My Steps of Faith Today:  To continue to trust the Lord for all of the trials that I have been going through over these past three years, and to continue to ask for God’s direction and for Him to continue to teach me contentment.