MONDAY, 6 JANUARY 2025
TEXT:
GENESIS 3:8-24
8: Then the man and his
wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the
cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
9: But the Lord God
called to the man, “Where are you?”
10: He answered, “I
heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”
11: And he said, “Who
told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you
not to eat from?”
12: The man said, “The
woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
13: Then the Lord God
said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent
deceived me, and I ate.”
14: So the Lord God
said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, “Cursed are you above all
livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat
dust all the days of your life.
15: And I will put
enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will
crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
16: To the woman he
said, “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor
you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he
will rule over you.”
17: To Adam he said,
“Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I
commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of
you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.
18: It will produce
thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
19: By the sweat of
your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it
you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”
20: Adam named his wife
Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.
21: The Lord God made
garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.
22: And the Lord God
said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must
not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and
eat, and live forever.”
23: So the Lord God
banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been
taken.
24: After he drove the
man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a
flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.
(New
International Version Holy Bible)
TOPIC:
STOP THE BLAME GAME
Adam blamed God for
giving him Eve. Eve blamed the serpent for deceiving her. The blame game
started with our ancestors in the Garden of Eden and has continued to this very
day!
We keep looking for
someone we can blame for our shortcomings, irresponsibility, and outright sin
against God. As often said, old habits hardly die, but they can in Jesus' name.
If we sin, there is no
need to resort to the old blame game. Let us simply take responsibility,
confess to God, and repent.
1 John l:8-10 says,
"If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not
in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our
sins and purify us from all unrighteousness."
QUESTION:
Are you blaming someone else for your shortcomings, irresponsibility and sins?
PRAYER:
Oh God, help me to admit, confess and repent from my sins rather than blaming
someone else, in Jesus' name. Amen.
Remain
Blessed
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