Things That Brand Me Sad--The Flood

How could it happen?

God gave mankind everything to brand us happy, but nosotros messed it up.

First Adam together with Eve, hence Cain.

Then every idea of every human being was bent on evil (Genesis 6:5).

Every idea ... every man...except Noah. And our Lord grieved.

Noah preached, warned, told the truth. But no i believed him (2 Peter 2:5). 

No i believed God.

That happens today too. We ignore God's loving warnings together with simply perish along messing things up. 

Instead of realizing that He gives us to a greater extent than than nosotros deserve, nosotros bill God of non doing enough. 

Instead of listening to the Truth, nosotros perish along on believing lies.

Unbelievers create it, but nosotros believers create it too. We bring God's Book but nosotros heed to our culture, our peers, together with our ain selfish hearts. 

Help us, Lord Jesus, to meet things equally You meet them. Help us recollect who nosotros are together with Who You Are.
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I intend you'll also taste reading this 1-minute devotion: The Big Picture.

Just I Dominion In Addition To They Broke It!

Why did God seat a forbidden tree inwards the Garden of Eden?

Some people role this every bit an declaration against God's goodness. But it's truly only the opposite.

Think close it:
God gave Adam too Eve 1 dominion (Genesis 2:16-17). Just one.

They had a plethora of choices for delicious, nutritious fruit (Genesis 2:8-9) too solely 1 was forbidden. Just one.

God created Adam too Eve "very good" (Genesis 1:31) too had companionship amongst them (Genesis 3:8-9) too hence they had no argue for insecurities, concerns, or fears. None. Not one.

But God didn't desire robot dearest anymore than you lot or I would desire it.(1)

So He tested their faith.

And man, without a help inwards a perfect environment, amongst every argue to trust too obey his loving Father, sinned at the get-go opportunity, broke the 1 rule, too broke God's heart.

This number is non an declaration against God's goodness, but an declaration for it...especially because God at 1 time began to redeem mankind from his sins.(2)

(1) See "Why Did God Create Man With the Ability to Sin?"
(2) See "Things that Make Me Sad About Adam."