Seeing Long Term Consequences in Little Decisions...

Learning to make better chioces in Life...

All nature is programmed to respond as God designed it to respond. Birds fly. Fish swim. Deers run.

But in the midst of all creation, a man and a woman were created with a difference. They could choose. They could choose to love God and obey Him. Or they could choose to turn their backs on God and go their own independent way. They were the one unprogrammed element in the universe.

God validated choice, and He validated His image in us by giving us the power to choose. The tree was there so that Eve and Adam could voluntarily choose to keep themselves in fellowship with God.

All of our loves are bound up in choice. Without the power to choose, to say that we love has no meaning. We can demand obedience. We cannot demand love. The tree gave Eve and Adam the opportunity to love God meaningfully. The tree, through its very presence, was a visible reminder to the man and woman that they were creatures, dependent on their Creator.

....CHOICES.

What are the choices Eve made? It was just a decision about a piece of fruit. Or was it? Behind our little decisions often lurk big decisions. For Eve it was really a decision to doubt the goodness of God. It was a way of saying that God has misrepresented Himself, that He really did not have their best interests at heart.

And so, Eve gained what she had been promised: a knowledge of good and evil. She knew toil, pain, loss and death. Many women have lived lives of great tragedy. But no other woman has even known as she moved from Eden to alienation - alienation from God, from her husband, and from a benevolent environment. To have known the good as she knew it must have made the evil much more stark in its awfulness.

However, within the tragic denouncement of this story lay one tiny ray of hope for Eve. The tiny ray has become a life-changing beam of hope for us today. Even in the midst of meting out punishment and prophecies for the sin of Adam and Eve (Gen 3:15), God was concerned with reestablishing a relationship with those who bear His image. He warned Satan that his victory was not forever. The day would come when one world be born of the seed of woman - who would crush the head of the serpent.

Here was the first word of promise, the first hint of a future deliverer from sin. The bad news contained good news. God has not written off his creatures...

The Author stepped into the story and changed the ending. God could take all the bad decisions and the pain and sorrow and use them to make a happy ending.

You and I live not as Eve lived, waiting for the fulfillment of God's promise. You and I live with that promise fulfilled in our lives. Jesus Christ had come, and through Him you and I can have a relationship with God.

In Christ I can be made alive. In Christ you can be made alive. In Him we can experience a vertical relationship with our creator...We can choose to have God write a happy ending to the drama of our lives. We can choose to have Him establish a relationship that is not broken by our independence and our bad choices. We can then watch Him bring healing to human relationships that weigh us down.

We can choose...

Eve & Rahab: Learning to Make Better Choices (RBC Discovery Series Bible Study)

This story reminds me of a song God once placed in my heart...this was sometime back, when I sang this song and shared a testimony about how God is painting a picture of my life...there are spots that used dull, dark colours (difficult times in life)...and there were times with bright fresh colours (good happy times)...we need both to make a complete beautiful picture. And God the master painter knows exactly how this paiting will turn out...

"Jesus, You're the Author of my life..."