SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 02/23/2006
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. “13 For it was Adam who was first created, and
then Eve. 14 And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman
being deceived, fell into transgression (1 Timothy 2:13-14).
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.
3/14/2020
8:56 AM A couple of weeks ago in our Wednesday evening service which we are
studying a book by Warren Wiersbe entitled “The Strategy of Satan” the subject
come up of how Satan tempted Eve and then how each fell into sin. I asked a question about how much Adam knew
about death before his wife and he sinned.
We know that there is both spiritual and physical death, but did Adam
know of both of these types of death before he ate of the forbidden fruit? I really don’t know the answer, but I feel
that perhaps he did not know that much about death, but just needed to trust
and obey the Lord. 3/14/2020 9:01 AM
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.
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