Genesis 3:1-4
1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”
4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
Genesis 3 speaks about the fall of man…human kind. In the first part of the chapter we read that the woman (Eve) was walking through the garden, and a crafty creature, a serpent speaks to her. “Did God really say ‘you must not eat from the tree in the middle of the garden?’” Eve answered him stating that God did indeed say “You must not east the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, nor could they touch it, because they would die.”
The serpent told Eve “You will not die, but rather you will gain knowledge of good and evil…just like God.” So Eve picked some fruit and ate it, she gave some to Adam and he ate. So ends how man fell from God’s grace and favor.
In the moment that the serpent had deceived Eve and she took from the tree, fruit and ate it, she gained worldly knowledge of this workings in the world. So it is today, when we accept Jesus as our savior, we gain the eternal spiritual realm, we gain a spiritual “Garden of Eden”, but in our Garden there will not be one to deceive us, rather we as humans on earth put things in our lives that are our “Trees of Knowledge”. I have personally experienced this, in my life I have put relationships with others in the place of honor or before God. Instead of having God then the relationship…
So my question for you today is, What Tree have you placed in front of God? Which Tree is more important to you than God?
