Consequences of Following Wrong Advice - All The LORD is near Daily Devotionals for 2024

To the woman He said: "I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; in pain you shall bring forth children; your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you." Then to Adam He said "Cursed is the ground for your sake; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, and you shall eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground."
Genesis 3:16-19

Consequences of Following Wrong Advice
God had graciously provided our first parents with a delicious and abundant variety of food: every seed-bearing herb and every tree whose fruit yields seed. He had only forbidden them to eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. This should have made the couple thankful, while also reminding them that they were creatures subject to a sovereign beneficent God.

The woman was approached by the serpent. She conversed with him and listened to his deceptive lies. In reality this was Satan, whom the Lord Jesus in . They now were afraid of God and hid when He called them. Fellowship with Him was broken. God now faced them with their sin and pronounced His judgment—our opening verses—on them and their offspring who have inherited their sinful nature: you and me reading this sheet.

But thank God, that was not all. God pronounced judgment upon the serpent, declaring that the Woman's Seed—whom we know as Jesus, God's Son—would defeat him totally by dying for sinners.

Eugene P. Vedder, Jr.