Daily devotion – why choose to live foolishly?
Gen 3:6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.
If only this verse and these events weren’t in the Bible! Everything would be so very different. But we know they did happen and that’s why our world and our lives are in the shape they are in today.
But what made Eve and Adam do such things in the first place. To go against God’s word and His warning. To think they knew better and to act in a way that is knowingly is in rebellion against God.
Sadly, many believers are still stepping into dangerous ways of living, yet they know fully what they are doing is wrong.
We see young men and women placing God second in their lives and instead go in search of a relationship with someone who is not even a follower of Christ. We see husbands and wives, who know the scriptures about marriage, instead demanding to have their own way and bring an end to their relationship.
We see fathers and mothers, well aware of what the Bible says is the right way to raise godly children, but they choose their own path, with tragic results.
For some rebellious reason we like Eve believe for that moment, that foolish decision, that we know better than God! That what God directs us to do won’t achieve what we want!
Bad and painful decisions in the past should make us wiser in the future. But why do we have to even track down that dumb path in the first place?
Are you a believer who right now is going against what the Scriptures tell you to do in your situation? If so, you are saying you know better than God and only you can give your life what it is needing.
Don’t follow Eve or Adam’s example. For their selfish desires killed them and added the poison of sin to all their offspring, including you and I.
In addition, later they would have their son Cain murder their other son Abel, out of sinful jealousy.
Sin brings death. When we make decision on our own in rebellion against God, those decisions will bring death to something in our lives.
Let us instead, grow wiser, healthier and happier. Let us heed the Apostle Paul’s plea – Romans 12: 1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Why should we bring pain and sorrow onto ourselves? Let us enjoy the life that God has planned for us and instead live each day in His grace and peace!