SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 02/02/2006
My Worship Time Focus: First human sin committed
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Genesis 3:6
Message of the verse: “6. When the woman saw that the tree was good
for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was
desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also
to her husband with her, and he ate.”
I would
like to focus in on the word “saw” in order to help explain what this
verse means. In the previous two verses Satan was painting
a picture with his words, a picture that was first of all temptation, but
temptation at times paints a lovely picture at first, but when one falls for
the temptation the consequences of the sin are not so lovely. A man can be tempted by a lovely woman and
can be enticed to have sexual relations with her, knowing all the time that
this would be wrong, and the consequences could be that he wakes up the next
morning with Aids, so the lovely painting has just become a terrible nightmare.
Satan is in
the business to deceive people and he does a good job of it, however the one
thing that can keep a believer from falling into his temptations is the Word of
God, and that is the one thing that both Adam and Eve forgot, for they were
only thinking of themselves and because of Adam’s sin, for he sinned with his
eyes wide open as opposed to Eve being deceived, every person who is a
descendant of Adam is born with his nature, and the only cure for that is to
accept what the New Adam, the Lord Jesus Christ, has done for you and then you
will be credited with His Righteousness.
In the first Adam all have sinned, and in the second Adam all are made
righteous.
1John 2:16
follows the pattern of how Eve fell to temptation, and that is the lust of the
eyes, for she saw the beauty of the fruit, the lust of the flesh, it was good
for food, and the pride of life, as it would make her wise.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: Another part of the word saw is see, and as a
believer I must see the temptations that are brought my way, and I must also
see the Word of God, in other words, I must understand what the Word of God has
to say about temptation, and also the consequences of falling into that
temptation and do as the Lord Jesus Christ did when He was being tempted by
Satan in the wilderness with the same three areas of temptation, the lust of
the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, but the Second Adam
would not fall for these temptations because He combated them with the Word of
God, and because He is my example to follow I must do the same.
The Word of God has been a challenge to my heart as I read
and studied it this morning.
My Steps of Faith
Today: When temptation comes to me
to use the Word of God to defeat it as the Lord Jesus Christ did. To trust the Lord and to direct my path and
to teach me more about contentment.
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