Main Scripture: Genesis
3 (part 2)
And it was not Adam who was deceived by Satan. The woman was deceived, and sin was the result (1 Timothy 2:14)
Regarding the woman:
Why did the devil address her and not Adam, seeing that they were
there together? Was it his intention to appeal to her ego, her sense of self-importance?
Was she so flattered by being singled out that she failed to see the crafty
twist of words even in Satan's first question? Did she subconsciously notice
it, but brush it off in her eagerness to answer him? God had NOT told them that
they could not eat of ANY of the trees in the garden! Does the phrasing of this
question predispose her to mistrust God? Should a bell of warning have gone off
in her mind right then and there? Hm .....
While she does repeat God's original command, she adds to it "neither
shall you touch it". .... Why did she feel the need to supplement what God
had so plainly said? Hm ....
The ground is fertile now for Satan to move in for the kill, the blatant
lie, the direct contradiction to what God had said, "You shall NOT surely
die!!!" .... and to thrust the lethal weapon even further into their
minds, he gives a so-called motive why God had forbidden them from eating that
particular fruit, i.e. "a petty clinging of God to His Godliness, not
willing to share this part of being
like Him, knowing good and evil with His creatures”. Hm .....
Upon closer inspection of the fruit, Eve covets it, believes she has a
RIGHT to it, eats it in direct disobedience to God's command and tempts her
husband to participate in her sin, thus stepping out of the role God had
created her for, namely to be a helpmeet for Adam. She had now become Satan's
ally in destroying her husband. What a tragedy!!!
Lord, help us, as women,
to understand the scope of influence we have in our husbands’ AND consequently
our sons’ and daughters’ lives .... influence for good or for evil.
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