Of Special Note

Deep in our hearts, we may ponder several of the following questions and observations about how Eve and God interacted, the response and the purpose(s).

This illustrates how easily our own ambitions, desires or what we feel are legitimate needs can steer us off track.

Temptations can cause us to search deep within our hearts. Perhaps through them, we will see what we may have tried hard to avoid or it may reveal something within us that until this time had gone unnoticed.

Keep in mind up until her confrontation with the serpent Eve had not been exposed to any kind of evil nor had anything gone wrong in her and Adam's world. They had perfect fellowship with the Lord, yet they were not completely fulfilled or satisfied (because they both partook of the fruit in Genesis 3:6 & 7). This incident can cause us to examine our own hearts.

The Lord desires us to be open and honest not only with Him, but with ourselves.

Those times that we do find we have fallen short or are hesitant to contemplate exactly what the Lord reveals to us, we know that He is Our caring Father who understands our shortcomings. We must come to Him and ask for forgiveness (repent) of those shortcomings and try our best to look past them the next time we may be confronted with the same kind of temptation/circumstance.

"Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord."
Acts 3:19

"Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."
Matthew 26:41

The circle of blame...Adam's response to God (v. 12); Eve's response to God (v. 13); seems that this human trait has remained with us since the beginning of time. We may have a tendency to do just the same.

Our desire upon this earth should be to serve the Lord-whole heartedly.

"But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the Lord charged you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul."
Joshua 22:5

In the determination to do so, we are going to meet resistance, temptation, lack of desire or even perhaps failure. Though this account in Genesis does not cover in detail how Eve responded to God's confrontation except to point blame, it is something we should greatly consider.

At times we can take the same way out, participating in the "circle of blame". We may place it on someone else or we reason that something happened (or did not happen) because of the lack of what we have (or have not) received in our lives.

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