2005-07-17

To Eat or Not to Eat...

   I love food, especially when someone else has cooked

it. I even like hospital food! When I go to a restaurant it

is sometimes hard to choose. There is so much variety, so

many different flavors.  I am grateful that I have so many

choices.

To Eat or Not to Eat... that shouldn't have been the question! No

I'm not talking about dieting.

I'm talking about the start of man's downfall

right from the beginning. I'm talking about the choices

two people made that changed the whole world. They had

so much variety, the absolute best of everything. There was

only one thing they weren't allowed to have.  The one thing that would

cost them their lives if they ate it.  What were they thinking??

I'm sure most people, those who believe in Creation, blame Eve for mankind being kicked out of the Garden of Eden. Well I'm here to say you have been mislead. Eve may have been the first one to eat from the forbidden tree because she was deceived but Adam wasn't deceived, he just went along for the ride.

His choice was, that.. surely God didn't know what He was talking about, he obviously decided that God must have been lying to them.

He decided he would believe the Evil One instead of God.

   God created man with the right to choose and ever since Adam took that first bite man has been making wrong choices. If Adam would have been the leader God created him to be, our lives would be a whole lot different.

If Adam had ejected the snake out of the Garden and Eve had asked God's forgiveness I believe mankind would not, since then, be continually searching for Paradise.

Do you make the right choices? Are you continuously looking for something better but you don't know what it is?

Your answer is here, because our loving Father has given us a second chance.

John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life"

Can you look in the mirror and .... believe..