Trinity:
Gen 1:26 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
The man was accountable:
Gen 2:16 The Lord God commanded the man, saying, "From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die."
There is so much I see here. I love the differences in roles of husbands and wives. They glorify God. In the beginning the differences began.
Gen 2:22 The Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.
Gen 3-Eve added to what God said. She, like many wives today, first listened to what she shouldn't have, then doubted God, then added to what God said. Why did God not show the man to be deceived? There is significance here.
Gen 3:6 Eve had so many reasons to justify her actions. So many times we wives do the same thing with why we want to be leading our families rather than our husbands. Those reasons can't stand up to this or Gen 3:16 '...Yet your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.' How many times do wives gloss over that last part? RULE OVER YOU...God cursed people for the sin in the garden. Even if a wife gets her husband to let her lead, she will not win in the end.
Well, that is just a smidge of what stood out to me recently in a fresh light. We will not outreason or outsmart God's word or His truth. I find it comforting. Parameters are easier to function within than a wide open space. |