"The decisions we make in this moment will determine our freedom in the next" -Erwin McManus
This week we’ve been looking at how God loves us enough to give us a choice, He gives us free will. What we do with that choice is entirely up to us.
Read Genesis 2:15-17 and journal your thoughts
God places Adam and Eve in this garden and gives them full reign over it; the only thing is they can’t eat of the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Every day Adam and Eve faced a choice, was today the day they were going to actually eat of that fruit? Every day when they made the choice not to eat of the fruit, they were close to God. They had this beautiful relationship with Him where they were able to talk with Him just like we talk with each other. But the moment they choose to eat the fruit, they grew distant from Him (Genesis 3:23-24).
This is the same choice we make every day. It’s so easy for us to say “if only I was in the garden, I wouldn’t have eaten the fruit and none of this would have happened”. But we have this same choice every day. We choose to eat the fruit when we sin against God. But we also have the choice to draw closer to God when we choose to follow Him, when we choose not to eat the fruit in our own lives. Just like Jesus lived in this perfect relationship with God, we have the same opportunity when we follow Jesus’ example.
Today pray that God would give you the strength to put the fruit down.
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