“And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.”
Some people tell us that we will get whatever we wish for as long as we believe that we are going to get what we wish for and we have enough desire. That is not always true for Adam and Eve wanted to be like gods and be able to define what is good and what is evil. However, they didn’t get what they wanted for God still defined good and evil. They did have to live with the consequences of what they had done because God had promised them that there would be consequences to their actions. It is impossible for any government to legislate against behavioural consequences, no matter how politically correct and desirable it may be.
The first thing that these people experienced was shame. They knew that had done wrong and they realised that they were naked. This led to shame and they hid themselves from God, I suppose they were hoping He would not realise that they had sinned. They tried to cover their shame by making clothes out of fig leaves.
In spite of their efforts, God was not fooled and He came to the garden, as was His habit, to bring them face to face with the consequences of their actions. Shame is one of the consequences of sin but it is not the hardest issue that we have to deal with.
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(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
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