Five initial questions,
posed to man.
Three answers fumbled, and
only one was straight.
If before God you will fall
or stand,
Consider answers to
questions on your plate.
The first question planted
earth’s first seed of doubt.1
Eve answered, but she added
a twist.
Touching the tree?! T’wasn’t what it was about.
Adding this twist, she just
couldn’t resist.
In her answer, can you
clearly see,
Man’s first sin was not
what we think it was.
Distorting God’s Word?! Seriously?
This she did, as we
today…just because.
The second question, God
calling out to man,
‘Where are you?’ 2 Like me, do you get this
impression:
T’wasn’t about his location
on the land,
But about his place
vis-à-vis God’s instruction.
Now the third question, ‘Who
told you that you were naked?’ 3
Ummmm…
Why did God immediately focus
on the pronoun, who,
Over other ways he could
have interrogated?
He knew, as in Heaven,
there had been a devilish earth coup!
You see, God designed us
all as relational beings,
To learn through
relationship with Him and each other.
If listening to devils,
with them we’d be agreeing.
Re. the who
question, He didn’t pursue it further.
‘Of the one forbidden tree,
did you eat?’
4
This direct question
Adam simply could not duck!
Sweaty brow and palms from
‘feeling the heat’,
So onto Eve he decided to
‘pass the buck’!
Buck passed, now it’s Eve
on God’s ‘hot seat’.
She decided to join in on
the ‘blame game’.
She had fallen for the
serpent’s cheat.
From then on, with God, nothing
would be the same!
These potent questions,
with an echoing refrain,
Today, if you stop and
listen, you can clearly hear.
‘Has God said…?’, devils still ask you in
their disdain.
‘What’s this you have done?’, God whispers in your
spirit’s ear.
Curiously…
Our answers are not too
dissimilar
From those of our ‘First Couple’
so long ago,
Though Jesus came, us to
disencumber,
So God’s Truth from devils’
lies we all would know.
And since He came, there’s
now no one to blame.
Sweaty brow and palms from
feeling the heat??
No buck to pass! No excuse
to exclaim!
Now what’s your
game plan when on… God’s hot seat?
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1
Genesis 3:1, Has God indeed said, ‘You
shall not eat of every tree of the garden?’
2
Genesis 3:9
3
Genesis 3:11
4
Genesis 3:13
