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[h=3]The Fall[/h]3 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”
4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked;so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
It seems to me when I look back on my life and on my own sinful patterns, they always come from from a place of insecurity....just like what Satan did to eve. He struck right at the heart of her relationship with God by telling her that God was keeping something good from her. Did she become angry at God? The scripture doesn't tell us that but imagine if you were told convincingly by someone, that someone you were close to had "deceived" you by keeping something good from you. Would you have a hint of anger? I believe that Eve acted out of anger (even if it was just a mild frustration) that God, whom she trusted, had lied or kept something good from her. Her anger was born out of the pain of feeling deceived or left out. Instead of processing her pain with the God she loved, she took Satan at face value and lashed out at God in anger and disconnected from Him?
Just knowing human nature and how easy it is to act out of our anger, instead of using anger for what is designed for (a warning to us that a boundary has been crossed or a core value violated)...... sin comes from our inability to process the pain in the moment that we feel and get to the "truth" of the matter.
2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”
4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked;so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
It seems to me when I look back on my life and on my own sinful patterns, they always come from from a place of insecurity....just like what Satan did to eve. He struck right at the heart of her relationship with God by telling her that God was keeping something good from her. Did she become angry at God? The scripture doesn't tell us that but imagine if you were told convincingly by someone, that someone you were close to had "deceived" you by keeping something good from you. Would you have a hint of anger? I believe that Eve acted out of anger (even if it was just a mild frustration) that God, whom she trusted, had lied or kept something good from her. Her anger was born out of the pain of feeling deceived or left out. Instead of processing her pain with the God she loved, she took Satan at face value and lashed out at God in anger and disconnected from Him?
Just knowing human nature and how easy it is to act out of our anger, instead of using anger for what is designed for (a warning to us that a boundary has been crossed or a core value violated)...... sin comes from our inability to process the pain in the moment that we feel and get to the "truth" of the matter.
