Can't See The Forest For The Tree

the day that you eat of it you shall die.” Adam passed along this information to Eve.

Now Eve may not have been given complete or accurate information and therefore

was tricked into eating the fruit from this tree, but Adam knew better.

Eve gives him some of the fruit and, in direct disobedience to God, knowing word

for word what God had told him, ate it. What could be the harm in just a little bite??

After all - who would ever know? It’s the little secret sins we think we can get away

with, isn’t it?

Why was “their eyes being opened” and knowing they were naked bad?

(Gen. 3:7)

Well, it’s not that their eyes were literally “opened”. Their eyes being opened meant

that they now had the “knowledge of good and evil” Satan had tempted Eve with.

They had lost their innocence, their sound judgment, and were now confused and

shamed by knowing they had disobeyed God. Herein lies Satan’s half-truth. Their

eyes were opened, BUT only to the shame and grief, and in their shame and grief,

Adam and Eve felt “naked”. No, not naked in the sense of no clothes but in the

realization that they had been stripped of all the honors and joys of paradise and

exposed to the miseries and ramifications of an angry and disrespected God.

Feeling naked, they then made garments of fig leaves for themselves.

What does this passage of Scripture say to us today?

People often say that the Bible is outdated and has no relevance in today’s modern

world. Of course, I disagree. I often say that you can find the answer to ANY

problem that life throws at you today in the Bible.

This scripture reminds us that Satan is still attacking us today, using the same old

tactics: lies, trickery, half-truths, attacking us at our weak points, trying to take us

out. And, of course, we still fall for them.

Fortunately, as it tell us in Romans 8:31, “If God is for us, who can be against us?”

If you look just a few verses further on from our Scripture for today at Gen. 3:21,

you’ll see that God fixes Adam and Eve’s pitiful attempts to cover themselves and

makes garments for them. God then, as He still does today, looks out for us and

gives us 2nd, 3rd, 500th chances. He knew Adam and Eve couldn’t deal with Satan

correctly and we can’t take on Satan by ourselves, so He helped Adam and Eve and

looked beyond our naiveté and futile attempts to save ourselves and rescued us by

giving His only Son to die for our sins.

A man purchased a white mouse to use as food for his pet snake. He dropped the

unsuspecting mouse into the snake’s glass cage, where the snake was sleeping in a

bed of sawdust. The tiny mouse had a serious problem on his hands. At any moment

he could be swallowed alive. Obviously, the mouse needed to come up with a

brilliant plan.

What did the terrified creature do? He quickly set up work covering the snake with

sawdust chips until it was completely buried. With that, the mouse apparently

thought he had solved his problem.

The solution, however, came from outside. The man took pity on the naive little

mouse and removed him from the cage. No matter how hard we try to cover or deny