Subsequently, God turns to Eve and asks…What is this you have done? (The same question goes to the rest of us) Genesis 3:11. Moreover, even if Eve had been listening all this time, she does what her husband had done. Reasoning with the half truths, playing the blaming game, and somehow giving excuses, as she tried to hide her own sin, instead of taking responsibility. But, I believe God wanted her to think wisely; that acknowledging her sin and having a contrite heart would get her to connect to God again. Nowadays, some of us deal with it by repentance and asking God for forgiveness through Jesus.
What have you done question – helps us to analyse the consequences of our actions, especially when the action is connected to sin. Also to think about God’s laws and how it affects us and others. The alarm in our minds (a rooster’s call), which goes off before and after the wrong action, is designed to get us to be aware of a sin.
Those who are rooted in faith (Jesus) are more alert to the call, because they read the scriptures and have the Holy Spirit to guide them. Jesus through the Holy Spirit will always remind us to say no to sin and of judgement. One thing about the Bible, it goes into details and mentions every area of sin. Jesus goes even further to explain; it’s not just the actions, but the thoughts as well, such as hatred, envy, etc. For every sin begins with a thought, and comes from the heart, Mark 7:20-23. Real transformation or repentance takes place in the heart first and then extends to thoughts and actions.
TEMPTATION
The first question which can also be translated as (where are you now?) is applied to a situation or temptation, where we have to exercise a thinking process before we take action which normally results to affect us and others before God. When you think about it; we often learn from our mistakes. If we are wise enough we don’t do it again, or we sense the danger of sinning and avoid it altogether. Sin normally carries a sting. In this case, Jesus would ask; what have you learnt?
Another crucial point is; the questioning and reasoning process helps us to come to that turning point. Sometimes, when our hearts are contrite, we can express good reasoning and come to a clear understanding. To make a turning point, requires us to assess our lives by looking deep within, and weigh decisions whether they are right or wrong. And eventually to seek His wisdom from the Holy Bible, which delivers us from a lot of heartache and leads us to salvation.
To be continued…………..
Warning: Declaration of Social_Walker_Comment::start_lvl(&$output, $depth, $args) should be compatible with Walker_Comment::start_lvl(&$output, $depth = 0, $args = Array) in /home/customer/www/happinessineden.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/social/lib/social/walker/comment.php on line 18
Warning: Declaration of Social_Walker_Comment::end_lvl(&$output, $depth, $args) should be compatible with Walker_Comment::end_lvl(&$output, $depth = 0, $args = Array) in /home/customer/www/happinessineden.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/social/lib/social/walker/comment.php on line 42
My husband and i were so satisfied when Peter could finish up his researching while using the precious recommendations he got through the site. It’s not at all simplistic to just happen to be giving for free points most people might have been making money from. And we all know we now have the website owner to thank because of that. The illustrations you’ve made, the simple blog menu, the friendships you can make it possible to foster – it’s everything impressive, and it’s really assisting our son and us imagine that the concept is brilliant, and that’s exceptionally fundamental. Thanks for the whole lot!
Thank you for your whole labor on this web page. Kate loves managing investigation and it’s simple to grasp why. Most of us hear all of the compelling medium you create very useful steps via your web site and even welcome contribution from visitors on this situation while our princess is always studying so much. Enjoy the remaining portion of the new year. You’re the one performing a really good job.
I not to mention my buddies have already been looking at the great items from the blog then immediately got a horrible feeling I never thanked the web site owner for those tips. All of the men came for that reason joyful to read through them and have surely been tapping into them. Appreciation for indeed being so considerate and then for deciding on varieties of outstanding topics millions of individuals are really desirous to be informed on. My very own sincere apologies for not expressing appreciation to earlier.