Meditation

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Only after outlining His plan for salvation does God describe the inevitable punishment Eve, Adam, and their offspring face.

Taken together, today's verses describe the post-fall life as one of struggle. Life will go on, but in exchanging truth for a lie, we have exchanged harmony with God, with each other, and with nature, for struggle in every dimension.

Women will struggle with childbirth, child rearing, and their relationship with their husbands. Men will struggle with work and providing for their families.

The earth will struggle with thorns and thistles competing for resources with productive plants.

Today's passage is Genesis 3:16–19. (and is called out in black).

Genesis 3

8 And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.

9 And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.

11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

13 And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

14 And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

Encouragement

Charles Haddon Spurgeon pointed out that in this description of human life after the fall, we see a perfect image of the incarnate Jesus.

A man of sorrows who suffered for us under the curse of sin. He was crowned with the thorns that sin caused, who sweated blood in the garden, and who knew death so that we might be saved.

In this bleak portrait of our fallen world, we see a true picture of the Savior and his sacrificial love emerge.

Andy

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