Genesis 3 vs 2-3, is so alarming.
We see the failure of Adam in seemingly not communicating effectively to Eve, about the reason behind why God has instructed to not eat from the knowledge of good and evil. In so doing, Eve has been left vulnerable to deception and temptation.
Although we don’t have clear indications as to if or why Adam didn’t communicate effectively, looking at the scenario, we might learn something about ourselves that we can surrender unto God to help us learn to live better for Jesus.
THE SCENE:
- Adam finds himself on a perfect earth with fully grown animals, vegetation, unpolluted sky and water.
- He is alone with God
- He is in Eden that is God’s Chosen place to commune with Adam
- Adam has experienced intimacy with God through the job of naming the animals God created and brought to him to identify, thereby getting an education directly from God
- Adam has zero influence from any human as he is alone with God
- Adam is a fully grown man, which tells us that God created everything with an inbuilt age already (important to know in regards the age of the universe arguments and evolutionary misinformation)
- Adam has a specific instruction about the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. There is no error in his learning the instruction as he got it directly from God
THEN COMES EVE…..
Is it possible that Adam having free will, chose to protect his special relationship with God by not giving Eve the right information about the banned tree?
Was Adam so taken by the beauty of Eve, his perfect mate, that rose tinted glasses made him stumble on his words?
Was Adam still learning what being a man was in conjuction to having a woman?
Was Adam so busy doing the work God gave him that he rushed through relating God’s rule about the banned tree?
Whatever the right answers are, the outcome is what matters. Because Eve, seemingly, didn’t have the right information, she believed somewhat incorrectly, chose a wrong choice, and viola we have the beautiful mess we find ourselves in.
HOW DO I PERSONALLY RELATE TO WRONG INFO, WRONG BELIEF, WRONG LIVING =WRONG LIFE?
My whole life I was labelled, branded, mocked, belittled, and beaten, from my father, school colleagues, and society around me. Males and females alike.
I learned wrong information about myself through others.
This wrong information become data in my mind.
That data, through repetition became neuro-programmed beliefs about myself.
Those beliefs became the actions I took, therefore wrong living based on wrong beliefs birthed from wrong information.
The pain got sooooooo bad that eventually the narrative, “You are nothing, you useless faggot. Why don’t you just die?” became so obsessively compulsive in me that all impulse responses to myself drove me to kill myself.
Through Genesis 3 vs 2-3, the is an ORIGINAL ROOT we ALL need to examine in ourselves.
If Eve, the second human on earth, had received a little miscommunication, or didn’t fully understand the information about the banned tree, how much more is it likely that you and I amidst the noise of 8 billion people on earth, marketing, advertising, music, movies, and various people trying to be the loudest voice, are we suseptible to wrong information becoming wrong beliefs becoming wrong living = wrong life?
RIGHT?!?!?
If you, and I, don’t climb off our selves who have been influenced by everything, and take pause, asking God to pull us into Himself – THE ONLY LIVING GOD- the sour reality is we are living as products of influence.
Fortunately, GOD I HIS MAGNIFICENT WISDOM, has already calculated every possible choice humans could make and laid plans to draw us all to ONE SINGLE ROAD- THE CROSS OF GOD IN FLESH aka JESUS CHRIST.
We either are going to discover the cross as THE TRUTH this side of the grave or we will discover when Jesus Returns that the cross was the key we needed to avoid the consequence of the wrong life.
Now, before, we get all uppity and say misinformed things like, “But, if God is good and all-knowing why didn’t He stop Eve?”
An answer with a question…..
“Do you like to be forced to follow rules, or forced to love somebody?”
GOD CAN ONLY BE GOD IF HE ALLOWS US TO COME TO HIM FREELY.
If God oppressed us into choosing Him, that would make him weak and fearful of us. You only oppress people you are afraid of. You only oppress people if you are afraid they won’t choose you
HOWEVER, GOD IS GOOD AND LOVE, AND POWERFUL.
(there is no power greater than God)
SOOOOOOOOO, as much as it hurts God to see us suffer because of choices made by Adam, Eve, and ourselves, God knows Himself and His Ability to bring us through everything back to His Perfection in Eden if we choose Him.
God loves us so much that He doesn’t force us to love Him, yet knows that His Love is so beautiful that despite the pain He carries watching our stupidity, that if we taste His Love we will deeply desire to choose Him. It is in this that GOD’S LOVE ALWAYS WINS.
The point…..
Are you, and I, willing to sit in uncomfortable emotions as God unpicks the wrong information in our minds, replacing it with RIGHT INFORMATION?
Are we willing to surrender the learned beliefs to God as He teaches us why our learned beliefs are wrong, and He the ONLY TRUTH to believe in as HE, ALONE, SAVES?
Are we willing to practice what God teaches us so that we aren’t just encyclopedias, but actively putting new ways, new habits, right living into motion?
THERE IS A RIGHT LIFE for each of us. God tells that we are known before we were born. God tells us He has plans for us. God tells us he is coming to fetch us. God tells us he makes our paths straight.
By proxy, there is right life that God has designed for us.
A wrong life too, designed by everything else.
IF, WE SAY, that we are seekers of truth, then we cannot then cherry-pick and avoid the possibility of Genesis and The Holy Bible being true. Because, if Eve could be deceived in the stillness of little influence, not one of us can claim we may not be deceived.
My encouragement to you is this….
I NEVER expected to discover Jesus is an ACTUAL PERSON who lives.
I will never forget the day in Parkhurst, roughly 2006’ish, my day off from work, after a massive counseling and prayer session, bawling my eyes in broad daylight, roughly 13:00’ish, it was a Wednesday, and screaming at God saying, “Can’t you just make me a robot that cannot make wrong choices?”
And in my bedroom, in front of me, Jesus appeared. All I could do was fall to my face, and kiss his feet. To be loved so undeservedly, in my brokenness as a relapsing drug addict, homosexual, like I have never been loved before, hit me so hard, that I could never let go of Jesus even when I was failing Him so badly.
It is 20 years as a Believer this year.
God has answered my fights with Him, about being a robot without flaws, by showing me love so magnificent that it gives me courage to examine, surrender, and overcome each pain and wrong information, through Jesus.
Am I a great Christian? One of the best because I know that I am one of the worst.
Jesus says to us, “I come for those who know they are sinners.”
I KNOW THAT I KNOW.
And because I know, I have no need to pretend before God, which allows me to grow into the RIGHT LIFE God always had for me.
JESUS LOVES YOU.
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