Thursday January 8, 2009 SENT OUT
Adam named his wife Eve [Life] because she became the mother of every living person. The LORD God made clothes from animal skins for the man and his wife and dressed them. Then the LORD God said, "The man has become like one of us, since he knows good and evil. He must not reach out and take the fruit from the tree of life and eat. Then he would live forever." So the LORD God sent the man out of the Garden of Eden to farm the ground from which the man had been formed. After he sent the man out, God placed angels and a flaming sword that turned in all directions east of the Garden of Eden. He placed them there to guard the way to the tree of life. Genesis 3:20-24 Since I didn't go into a whole lot of meaning yesterday, I will today. We now realize that Eve's consequences were physical, psychological, and social. Some understand "increase your pains in childbearing" to indicate making giving birth to children more difficult; not to mention that "monthly" thing more frequent and troublesome. "Your desire will be for your husband" also indicates Eve (and future women) would have a psychological dependence that will replace their original sense of personal identity; they would hunger for their man's role in life, yet they would be forced into roles that would demean them. Here is the distortion caused by sin itself. When Adam and Eve abandoned submission to God's will, conflict became inevitable. Adam too would suffer. Instead of work being something he enjoyed, work became toil, and life a struggle against nature. In all these things we see further evidence of the ruin sin brings. Yet, we also sense a note of hope. What Adam did, Christ has and will repair. When Jesus comes, nature itself will be liberated, but you and I can experience liberation even now! We can be liberated from competition in our homes and churches, and through mutual submission to God's will regain the harmony that reigned before the Fall. We can be liberated from the desire to dominate others. In Christ we can be liberated from blaming, from hatred, and from doing injustice. When our Father sent Adam and Even from the Garden, He had to place guards around it to protect it to keep them from coming back and to keep others from coming in as well and eating from the Tree of Life. Oh, that we could regain harmony! Father, I pray that one day peace will reign in my home and in the homes of those who are reading this today. Give us hope. Amen! O. Addison Gethers e-mail address : [email protected] or [email protected] window live messenger: [email protected] aim: durangoadd64 skype: cowboys62 yahoo messenger: OADDISONGETHERS --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deaf-Blind Inspirational Life Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/DBILG?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
