Diary of a Woman Learning

Today as I read Genesis 3 , I was particularly struck by verses 1-13. (I'll move on to the next verses soon.) God had given Adam and Eve everything they could ever want or need. They had food, they had purpose and even more, they walked in close relationship with God Himself. Yet they wanted more. Adam was told - apparently before Eve was ever fashioned from his rib - that only one thing was forbidden. Of all the trees in the Garden of Eden, only the single tree in the middle - the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil - was off limits. Verse 1 tells us that the serpent was very crafty. The serpent tempted Eve with the possibility that she could discern good from evil - that she could be like God. She was so tempted by this that she ate and she also gave the fruit to her husband - who was with her - and their eyes were opened. They were suddenly aware that they were naked and they were ashamed. They made coverings for their naked bodies from fig leaves and Adam and Eve hid from ...

I've read it before. So many times. I've even done studies and have been in classes that have gone over Creation. Yet as I read through Genesis 2 , the same thing strikes me - of all the things that God created, the only things that God actually touched were man and woman. Not the earth, the oceans, the animals...only man and woman. I was blessed within the last year or so, to do a Jennifer Rothschild Bible study called " Fingerprints of God ". It still fills me with awe, that God created me the way He did. Full of imperfections and human-ness...He created me perfectly suited to do His will. I fail so miserably and so often...but God's grace and mercy have afforded me the promise of a life with Him by my side. And even better still, eternity with Him when my life on this earth is over. I know that regardless of the trials that come my way in this life, God is always there. Let me say that again: no matter what my life on earth brings, God will never leave my s...