Here is a noteworthy point about this thing called sin.
Might it help to explain some binds you may be in?
God told Adam and Eve, ‘Of
this tree don’t eat, lest you die’,
But the serpent said, ‘You’ll
not surely die’. Ummm, did God lie?
So they ate, did not die, and likely thought, ‘All is good’,
‘Til God started calling for them in their garden hood.
They’d gone into hiding after making covering kits—
Leaf patches to hide themselves from Light, ‘cause they were
naked.
With their coverings, they finally stood before The Lord,
Confessing their nakedness, and sin done in one accord.
Found out, their shame they could no longer hide.
In His Word they’d clearly failed to abide!
In punishments that followed, note, God only twice said, ‘I will...’ *
Like you, I thought all of the punishments were from Him….until.
I wondered…
Could the others simply be fruit
from seed they’d planted,
A consequential mess to themselves,
they had granted?
You see, their sin, your sin and also mine
Is not fruit, but it is of the seed kind.
Since no seed bears fruit right after it’s been planted,
We quickly think God’s Word must have been recanted. **
The consequences of sin start with slow growth of its eventual fruit.
First the flower or leaf, then the bud, then the fruit - some light, others acute!
Since the fruit of sin, when full grown, is various kinds of death,
These progressive stages slowly lead us down… sin’s payment path.
The first plane where some form of death occurs is spiritual.
Unseen by our carnal minds, we think this isn’t factual.
Spiritual reality discounted, this death festers,
Starting just like a tiny flame that’s dismissed, yet it flitters.
With more people, more ways and means to sin more efficiently,
Today’s sin seeds, just like weeds, seem to grow much more rapidly!
And when in our lives all of their fruit suddenly show
up,
Shocked, we wonder, ‘How did
all of this end up in my cup?!’
‘Hey, you will not
surely die’, satan’s old refrain, ***
Echoes to us today; not one
change in his game!
C’mon…
Let’s connect the dots from-seed-to-fruit of this known stinker!
Then we’ll stop swallowing this old lie… hook,
line and sinker!
When sin is full
grown, it produces death.
(James 1:15)
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* They are: (1) Put enmity
between satan and the woman, and between satan’s seed (all anti-Christs) and
the Seed (Jesus) of the woman; and (2) greatly multiply the woman’s sorrow and
her conception; giving birth in pain and being ruled over by her husband.
** Word that the wages of sin is death (of various forms).
*** Genesis 2:4
