Nothing has changed since Adam and Eve.
Eve understood the doctrine of fruit-bearing trees. She was one of two experts at the time. Yet, a third party assured her that what she clearly understood contained blurred and narrow understanding. Eve re-looked at the forbidden fruit and began to ponder beyond original instructions. The more she thought about it the more seemingly better evaluation arose.
She would do it. She would eat, though God pleaded not, because it appeared she would be even wiser. In the name of wisdom the First Lady crossed the line. Mankind's emotional health, coupled with eternal destiny, came immediately crashing down. A new thing called fear struck the hearts of an otherwise oblivious couple.
Yet, we must not be too hard on Sister Eve, for we follow only a very close step behind. While we don't look into sin with a delightful eye of becoming more intelligent, we do so because we believe we will be happier.
We walk among the wounded living. We are the wounded living.
How did we ever enter into such perpetual collapse? It seems we believe as Eve that what is clearly forbidden by God will somehow bring us happiness; each of us feels we are the exception in that we can handle sin. And, Eve's pattern remains firmly in tact; what seems filled with promises of delight soon turns wormy.
The wishing for more (for some other place, somebody else) versus living with contentment with what we have and who we are is a major Garden Battle. Yes, the World News repeats concerns in and from the Middle East. Today multiple American embassies will be shut down in several countries. Threat looms.
However, the Sin War is always our greatest enemy and is as near as our conscience. Promises of feeling good, being really happy at last, and living a grand life of eventual peace fall into immense ruin once sin has a grip. We all speak from experience....all of us.
Our hope is in Jesus. I believe the church's strongest avenue of recovery is to admit we are too far gone to recover on our own; that only Jesus can make us pre-Garden whole. Promises offered to intensely impressionable eyes are always a scam if such are not the promises of Father.
Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord (Romans 7:24-25)!
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