Genesis 3 through 10

There were a few things that stuck out to me in these chapters.

God searched for Adam and Eve in the garden and when he found them He also found that they had been decieved by the serpent. It says, "The serpent was clever, more cleven than any wild animal God had made." I thought about this... the serpent surely is the most clever animal God has created... He lies so well. He knows how to trick. He knows how to manipulate. He knows how to destroy all God has built whether it has been physical things or spiritual things. The serpent knows how to hurt God's people. He throws lies at them constantly and can cause some much damage, but God is better than him. The serpent may be able to throw lies at us, but God gives us the truth. The serpent may be able to destroy us, but God can rebuild us. The serpent may be able to hurt us, but God loves us. The serpent may be strong, but God is stronger! Praise Jesus!

It hurt God greatly that the serpent was able to decieve Adam and Eve. It hurt Him deeply that they listened. It hurt Him so deeply that He decided it was best to destroy the human race...all except for Noah because God liked what He saw in Noah. He had Noah build a ship for him and his family, along with every type of animal God had created. But He wiped out the rest. "I am going to bring a flood on the Earth that will destroy everything alive under Heaven. Total destruction"-(Genesis6:17-the message). God kept Noah and his family because He liked what He saw in Noah...Then God thought to himself,"I'll never again curse the ground because of people. I know they have this bent toward evil from any early age, but I'll never again kill off everything living as I've done."-(Genesis8:21). He made this convenant with Noah - that the earth will never again be destroyed by floodwaters.

"This is the sign of the convenant I am making between me and you and everything living around you and everyone after you. I'm putting my rainbow in the clouds, a sign of the covenant between me and the Earth. From now on, when I form a cloud over the Earth and the rainbow appears in the cloud, I'll remember my convenant between me and you and everything living, that never again will floodwaters destroy all life. When the rainbow appears in the cloud, I'll see it and rememeber the eternal convenant between God and everything living, every last living creature on Earth"-Genesis9:12-16 (the message)


Thought of today: I noticed that the word sin is in Christian. I think this is important. I make a lot of mistakes, I sin a whole lot... Sometimes I've even had people say to me, "That's not very Christian of you." They may be right, but just because I am a Christian doesn't mean sin is not still present in my life. I believe I sin just as much as the non believer - it's different maybe because of how I deal with it and what I do with it, but sin is still in my life just like it is in the word Christian. Sin is part of the fall of man, but God is bigger than my sin, He died for it and with Him, only with Him can I conquer it!