satanic-fruitLooking over the past few months of devos and I think the one topic that has been covered extensively is Adam and Eve’s sin in the Garden of Eden.

So I thought to myself: “Self, what’s an angle on this that hasn’t been considered before?”

It occurred to me that someone might read the account of Genesis 3 and ask “What’s the big deal?” It’s not too long after this that Cain kills his brother, to which the cynical person might say “Now that’s a sin…but Adam and Eve eating fruit…I don’t see the big deal…”

So let’s take a few days considering a few “little” sins that are found throughout the Bible. What we’ll notice with each is that, though they may be “little” to us, to God they are very big. There  is no overlooked sin with the Holy God.

Adam and Eve learned that the hard way. Though they didn’t have to learn it at all. Had they simply obeyed God in the first place, and not given in to Satan’s temptation, they would never have had to learn just how seriously God views all manner of sin.

Instead they played the game that so many play today: They tried to weigh their desire to sin with the seemingly small nature of the sin in question.

In other words they said “Boy I’d sure like to be like God!” (which was the lie Satan told them about the forbidden fruit). And then they placed their selfish desires on one side of the scale and then placed, on the other side, the knowledge that “to eat the fruit is sin.”

They decided that their desires were worth more than the reality of sin, since it’s a question of “only” eating from a fruit tree.

“What’s the big deal?” they said to themselves. “It’s only a ‘little’ sin…and we get to enjoy all that this forbidden fruit offers.”

Then they ate. Then they found out how wrong they were.

 

Don’t make Adam and Eve’s mistake. Don’t don’t try to “weigh” how bad or how acceptable a sin is when compared to your desires. It’s not worth it. One “little” sin is enough to separate you from God and potentially condemn your soul forever.

Think about it,
have a great day!