Punishment of Adam

02/23/2006

SPIRITUAL DIARY

My Worship Time                  Focus:  Punishment of Adam

Bible Reading & Meditation             Reference:  Genesis 3:17-19

            Message of the verse:  “17 Then to Adam He said, ‘Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’; Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you will eat of it All the days of your life.  18  ‘Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; And you will eat the plants of the field; 19  By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return.’”

            God has held Adam responsible for this first act of sin because he was not tempted to sin, but listened to his wife.  I do believe that Satan has used this ploy on more than one occasion that is using a woman to make a man fall into sin.  Adam was head over heals in love with Eve and perhaps this is the reason that he forgot about obeying God when she came to him with the fruit and asked him to eat of it, at any rate in Paul’s letter to Timothy he told him that Adam was the cause for the fall of mankind.

            God then put a curse upon the ground, and everything that grows out of the ground.  It is kind of hard to imagine what this earth looked like before the first sin, and how the ground produced the food necessary for life without even working to make any of it grow, but that was the way God had created it and that first sin has had it’s affect on everything that is on this earth including all of the plants and all of the animals. 

            Adam also learned that he would eventually die because of his sin and as he begin to work with the soil to provide food for his wife and himself he would have probably thought about his death that would happen some day, and also the death of his lovely wife.

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  Just as Adam got sidetracked from listening to the Word of God, so can I, and that is why it is important to continue to read and study the Word of God each day so when those temptations come that the first thing that I will think about is the Word of God and what it has to say concerning that particular temptation.

The Word of God has been very challenging to my heart as I read it this morning.

My Steps of Faith Today:  Continue to trust the Lord to direct my path today and to continue to teach me contentment.