• Jan. 18, 2009
Something to think about

In our Sunday night Bible study we are discussing the topic of indwelling sin.  Tonight we were talking specifically about the doctrine of sin, focusing on the fall.  Our associate pastor said something in a way that really got me to thinking. 

In speaking of Eve's being tempted to eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, he brought up the fact that Eve had no need.  She and Adam were good; sinless at that; in a perfect place under perfect circumstances.  She lacked nothing.  In essence, she was full.  To place her focus on 'the fruit' or the desire to be like God, she had to remove something else from her focus.  What she removed was God.  She substituted God with her own desire. 

This thought of Eve being complete, lacking nothing, really hit me.  I began to think that, though we live after the fall and we have physical needs that Adam and Eve did not have, if we are Christians we have the fullness of Christ in us.  We lack nothing spiritually.  Sometimes, when I am focused on the issues of life I have the tendency to think that I have a divided focus at the worst.  I deceive myself into thinking that I haven't really stopped looking at Christ, I have simply started looking at other things in addition to Him.  But, since I am full in Him, since I lack nothing spiritually, then there is no room to add something else, I must replace my vision of Christ to allow other worries to come into view.

So now "let us fix our eyes on Christ, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him, endured the cross, scorning it's shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God."  Hebrews 12:2

Shannon

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