I have truly terrible second-hand embarrassment. There are scenes in my absolute favorite movies and TV shows I will straight up skip or cover my eyes for if I know my least favorite part of the story is coming. It\u2019s the impending doom and dread I can\u2019t stand, watching an oblivious character walk back into the mistake or trap that they\u2019ll later wish they could have avoided. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is probably why I avoid rereading Genesis 3 at all costs. I don\u2019t want to relive the most painful moment when the trajectory of humanity was forever altered. I ache reading any part of this story, but the words of verse 5 are the most gut-wrenchingly deceptive to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In fact, God knows that when you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil. <\/em> Adam and Eve had only known pure intimacy, love, and belonging with their Creator. They had wandered this glorious garden with Him, conversing and caretaking and maybe even cracking a joke or two. And that\u2019s something the serpent preyed upon\u2014the desire to be like their perfect, wonderful God and attain His wisdom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But the problem is, Adam and Eve fell to the lie that the one-bite method would be the most effective and efficient way to be like God. <\/p>\n\n\n\n When I try to find an instant holiness formula, or when I think my way through life has some shortcuts God just doesn\u2019t know about, I find my heart wandering in that spiritual east-of-Eden land. I feel cast out of God\u2019s presence, wondering how to get back into paradise. Though I can praise God that those feelings aren\u2019t true in Christ, they do soberly remind me how much I value being with God. Is going against what God has instructed\u2014even if it seems best, logical, fun, desirable, or gratifying to me\u2014truly worth the cost? Do I value intimacy with God so little that I would see my way as a worthy trade for the closeness that comes when I follow what my Creator says is best?<\/p>\n\n\n\n God\u2019s way is the way of the garden\u2014the way where we move at His pace and are molded according to the true potter\u2019s hands. That process takes time, patience, and stillness to allow God to create His wisdom within us. And it requires reorienting my priorities to be about being with Him, rather than doing for Him. As you contemplate what it means to be with Him today and as you ask for what you need from Him to resist sin\u2019s allure, I\u2019m praying you find \u201cthe gift which comes through the grace of the one man Jesus Christ,\u201d because it has truly \u201coverflowed to the many\u201d (Romans 5:15).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have truly terrible second-hand embarrassment. There are scenes in my absolute favorite movies and TV shows I will straight up skip or cover my eyes for if I know my least favorite part of the story is coming. It\u2019s the impending doom and dread I can\u2019t stand, watching an oblivious character walk back into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":71765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genesis25"],"acf":{"hero_background_image":false,"related_plans":[71878],"weekly_truth":false,"grace_day":false,"share_text":"She Reads Truth","devotional_text":"THE TEMPTATION AND THE FALL<\/b> I have truly terrible second-hand embarrassment. There are scenes in my absolute favorite movies and TV shows I will straight up skip or cover my eyes for if I know my least favorite part of the story is coming. It\u2019s the impending doom and dread I can\u2019t stand, watching an oblivious character walk back into the mistake or trap that they\u2019ll later wish they could have avoided.<\/p> This is probably why I avoid rereading Genesis 3 at all costs. I don\u2019t want to relive the most painful moment when the trajectory of humanity was forever altered. I ache reading any part of this story, but the words of verse 5 are the most gut-wrenchingly deceptive to me.<\/p> In fact, God knows that when you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.\u00a0<\/em> Adam and Eve had only known pure intimacy, love, and belonging with their Creator. They had wandered this glorious garden with Him, conversing and caretaking and maybe even cracking a joke or two. And that\u2019s something the serpent preyed upon\u2014the desire to be like their perfect, wonderful God and attain His wisdom.<\/p> But the problem is, Adam and Eve fell to the lie that the one-bite method would be the most effective and efficient way to be like God.<\/p> When I try to find an instant holiness formula, or when I think my way through life has some shortcuts God just doesn\u2019t know about, I find my heart wandering in that spiritual east-of-Eden land. I feel cast out of God\u2019s presence, wondering how to get back into paradise. Though I can praise God that those feelings aren\u2019t true in Christ, they do soberly remind me how much I value being with God. Is going against what God has instructed\u2014even if it seems best, logical, fun, desirable, or gratifying to me\u2014truly worth the cost? 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As you contemplate what it means to be with Him today and as you ask for what you need from Him to resist sin\u2019s allure, I\u2019m praying you find \u201cthe gift which comes through the grace of the one man Jesus Christ,\u201d because it has truly \u201coverflowed to the many\u201d (Romans 5:15).<\/p>","share_image_height":"640","day_number":"2","scripture":"Genesis 3:1-24, Romans 5:12-21, Romans 16:20","available":true,"ad_banner_name":"","ad_banner_image":false,"ad_banner_url":"","songs":"","key_verse":"","key_verse_reference":"","background_image":false,"background_color":"#FBF7F3","scripture_references":false,"share_image":false,"author_name":"","author_bio":"","guest_social_media":false,"show_ad":true,"ad_override":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u2014Genesis 3:5<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u2014Genesis 3:5<\/em><\/p>
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