I think about Adam and Eve a lot. Many people talk about them as if they’re some tragic heroes who God “set up” for failure. I think those of us who look at it that way are doing so from tainted eyes. We’re prone to wander, prone to sin, made to worship, and yet, apart from Him, loathing the God we were created to be in relationship with. Adam and Eve willfully rebelled (sinned) against the God who created them and gave them dominion over the earth. They were hanging out at the tree that was forbidden. They had been talking about the tree that was forbidden (or, at the very least, thinking about it); we know this because eve added her own rule to God’s law (isn’t that what we STILL like to do?). They were nudged in the direction they already were curious about heading, weren’t they?
And here I am, some several thousand (at the very minimum) years later, still thinking about and talking about and wandering near the things that god told me would harm me (and they do). I reason “who does this hurt? It only effects me,” but, just like Adam and Eve’s sin, my own sin always seems to have a ripple effect. Whether I neglect to do what I ought to do (see me justifying a refusal, there?), or I willfully run toward sin, I am always the architect of my own demise, and, at times, those around me. What is my hope? I only can hope in the One who did not sin. My hope is only in Jesus, and I must throw myself at His feet, beat my chest and say “Have mercy on me, a sinner.” I have to admit my wrongs, repent of my rebellion, and seek to follow Him, and I must do this daily, because I am stubborn, willful and drawn by desire. God forgive me, I knew exactly what I was doing, but thank you, Lord that you sent your Son to live, die, and rise again, alive to bring me to you.
1 John 1:1-2:6
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life— the life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us— that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. And we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete.
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
2 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.

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