Sin’s deceitfulness

Carrying on from my previous post.

Adam and Eve had so much from God and there was only one thing they were not allowed and that was to eat the fruit from one tree. Instead of obeying God, they chose to disobey. This is how the Bible describes it: And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

Sin has always appeared to man this way – like something pleasant and with personal benefits. And the idea in the back of Eve’s mind was that God was withholding something valuable. But think for a minute what the result of her disobedience was remembering that Adam’s offspring came under the curse (in fact the whole of creation is under the curse). War, violence, dissatisfaction, greed, poverty, sickness, family break-up, distrust, lack of self-esteem, natural disasters, fatigue, and death. Of course this is just a little list and as you know, the full list would take up the whole internet.

Sin seems pleasing but it is, as I wrote in my last post, disobedience against God that carries terrible consequence. God says, the soul that sins will definitely die. I hear people boast of their sin almost on a daily basis (especially on Monday morning).  There is coming a day of accountability!

Now, this is all negative. Jesus came to die for sin. He shed His blood and God requires that blood be sacrificially shed before He would forgive. Jesus shed his blood and we receive God’s forgiveness. But this is a gift that God offers. A gift remains with the one who offers it until the one to whom it is offered receives it. You are not forgiven until you receive God’s gift.

More on this subject in future posts. Until then, so long.