The tree of life is first mentioned by God Who created it and planted it in the garden of Eden…Adam and Eve did not choose to eat the fruit of this tree…they chose to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (the only tree God had said for them not to […]

The living LORD God protects His own even when it seems harsh to His people.  His discipline in your life and mine is for our maturing as His children, and for our protection, Adam and Eve were protected from eating the fruit of the tree of life after they had sinned.  Before they thought the […]

The LORD God understands how people think…if Adam and Eve had stayed in the garden of Eden they may have wanted to “Make Things Right” by eating fruit from the tree of life…after they had eaten from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. (If they had done that, they would have lived […]

Adam and Eve had been tempted and succumbed to the temptation.  God calls that sin.  They had sinned and their nakedness was exposed. Whenever you sin, you expose your nakedness and your need to be covered.  Only God’s provision through His Son’s sacrifice can adequately cover you. Your sin and mine is against God and […]

What happened when Eve and Adam faced the LORD God after they had sinned?  The LORD God judged their sin, as an individual…each was responsible for sin before God, and so we also are responsible before God. God judged sin then and He will judge our sins against Him now.  If we have acknowledged our […]

Red Letter Day Attribute/Name of God ~ Lamb   John the Baptist was preaching and teaching at the Jordan River…people came out from the towns and cities to hear him.  On one of those days, John saw Jesus: (NASB) John 1:29 “The next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, ‘Behold, the Lamb […]

(NIV) Psalm 25:4-5 “Show me your ways, O LORD, teach me your paths; guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, And my hope is in you all day long.”

(See yesterday’s devotional for more background on this verse.) (NASB) Genesis 3:15 “And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel.” Messiah was promised, He is the ‘seed’ of the woman.  The […]

What did the LORD God do when Adam pointed to Eve as to why he had sinned?  Then the LORD God asked Eve and she said “The serpent deceived me and I ate.”  (See Genesis 3:11-12) The sin of disobedience was against God Himself.  That was true in the Garden of Eden and it is […]

God had told Adam that any tree in the garden was his to eat except one tree…the tree of the knowledge of good and evil…“…for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.”  (See Genesis 2:16-17) We are to listen to God and what He says and then do what He […]