We
all know the story of Adam and Eve and how they disobeyed God. There was a result to that disobedience that
has affected every human being since that day such as man having to work hard
to gain substance for his family, women having to experience terrible pain just
to bring a child into the world, and the loss of intimate fellowship and
friendship with God:
Genesis
3:15 AMP
“And I will put enmity between you
and the woman, and between your offspring and her Offspring; He will bruise and
tread your head underfoot, and you will lie in wait and bruise His heel.”
Enmity
means: hostility, hate, and
antagonism. Since that day satan has
done everything he can to keep us in our sinful state and away from God. He is everyone’s enemy. He is
your enemy. He does not want you
to succeed. In fact, He wants you to
fail, to suffer, to give up on God. He
does this by tempting you to live a life of sin. He makes his offers enticing, and hits where
you are weakest. Those of us in
addiction really know what this is like.
“Just one little taste won’t hurt…just one snort…just one shot,” and in
giving into that temptation we find ourselves back, full-blown into our
addiction. “It’s alright Eve, just one
bite…”
A
life of sin is a life of disobedience.
If we choose to sin then we are not choosing God. Sin breaks our fellowship with God but in His
mercy He is willing to forgive and to restore our (mankind’s) relationship with
Him. When God told satan what his
punishment would be for enticing Eve and Adam to sin He included a prophecy of
how He would release us from this curse of sin.
When God says, “You will strike
his heal,” He refers to satan’s work of putting Jesus to death
physically. When God said that satan’s
head would be bruised and treaded on He was referring to the work Jesus’ death
and resurrection did not only physically but spiritually. While a strike to the heal is not deadly a
strike to the head is quite lethal. Even
from the beginning God revealed how important and special we are to Him. On that same day sin became our curse Divine
Love proclaimed the promise of release from it by pointing to Jesus:
“For God so greatly loved and
dearly prized the world that He [even] gave up His only begotten (unique)
Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him
shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal
(everlasting) life. For God did not
send the Son into the world in order to judge (to reject, to condemn, to pass
sentence on) the world, but that the world might find salvation and be made safe and sound through Him.” –
John 3:16-17
You
are greatly loved! God longs for your
fellowship. I am speaking right now to
those who already believe that Jesus has redeemed them from the curse of sin. Are you living in that redemption? Reaffirm your commitment to Him right
now. I am also speaking right now those
of you who have never accepted what Jesus did for you and those of you who are
not sure. You are greatly loved! Father God gave up His only Son to die and
redeem you from the curse of sin. He
wants to make YOU “safe and sound.” All He ever asks in return is your heart. Won’t you give it to Him today?
I
would love to hear from you regarding what you decided. Please email me at kingsmonarch@gmail.com with the word “redemption” in
the title line.
