The Conversation

 Genesis 3:1-5

Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’ ”

The woman answered the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden, but about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You must not eat of it or touch it, or you will die.’ ”

"You will not surely die,” the serpent told her, “For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 

     Eve was not surprised when the serpent spoke to her. There is no shock, just a simple conversation. It is what the serpent said, and how he said it, that changed everything. This conversation changed the nature of conversing between animals and people, between people with each other, between people and God. Before this conversation took place, the first two people were in daily personal contact with God and He with them. Adam worked with God in the garden: he cultivated and tended it; God created animals and let Adam name them. What they were called is what they are now. But The Conversation ruined everything.

     First, the serpent questioned God's Word (Did God really say that?). Second, Eve replied to the serpent with second-hand knowledge of what God spoke to Adam. 

     God said to Adam, "“You may eat freely from every tree of the garden, but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

     Eve said to the serpent, "But about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You must not eat of it or touch it, or you will die.’ ” She added to God's Word when she replied to the serpent, "or touch it". 

     Thirdly, the serpent lied to Eve by telling her she would not die. For death, separation from God, was instantaneous when she bit into the fruit which grew on the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Her first mistake was to listen to the serpent (verse 2), her second was to respond (verse 2-3), and her third was to take action after contemplating what the serpent spoke to her (verse 6). 

     This conversation between Eve and the serpent is repeated a multitude of times on a daily basis with all people. We need to learn from Eve's mistakes and avoid any form of conversation with the enemy of God. This is not something we can do on our own: we need the power of God, the power of His Holy Spirit, to teach us to recognize temptation when it rears its ugly head and to avoid it by rebuking it when we see it and hear it. 

     We must seek out God's Wisdom by studying God's Word and spending time in prayer with God Himself. We need to hang out with God's people, building each other up in love, faithfulness and compassion. We need to gather with God's people and worship God the way He wants to be worshiped: whole-heartedly.  

  

     This is the only recorded conversation between mankind and animal in the Garden of Eden. There is another instance of an animal speaking to a human, but that wasn't in the garden (Numbers 22:28-30). 

     I'd like to believe that the animals still talk in the Garden of Eden. It is hidden but still viable (verse 24). 

Garden of God Herb Co.-Time (Thyme)

      Been awhile since I began this series. Got a couple of them done and then went to another subject. But I have been asking God to organize my mind and my thoughts as part of my healing process. Getting organized in here is what I want to be done, also. I guess in order to clean my desk off properly, instead of filing things and losing them, just to find them at a later date is not the solution.  

 But God is a God of order and not a god of chaos. Everything He does, He does in His time, not ours. Thank God for that, huh? Otherwise nothing of importance would ever get done. He created the universe in 6 days. 
DAY ONE:

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and the darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: 

and there was light. 

And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. 
DAY TWO:
 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.   

And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the  

firmament from the waters which were above the firmament:

and it was so.

And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

DAY THREE:

And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. 

And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters

called He seas: and God saw that it was good.

And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind,

and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed is in itself, after his kind:

and God saw that it was good.

And the evening and the morning were the third day.

DAY FOUR:

And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven

to divide the day from the night; 

and let them be for signs, and for seasons, 

and for days, and for years:

And let them be for lights in the firmament of  the heaven

to give light upon the earth:

and it was so.

And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, 

and the lesser light to rule the night: 

He made the stars also.

And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth,

and to rule over the day and over the night, 

and to divide the light from the darkness:

and God saw that it was good.

And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

DAY FIVE:

And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, 

and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

And God created great whales,

and every living creature that moves,

which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind,

and every winged fowl after his kind:

And God saw that it was good.

And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, 

and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

DAY SIX:

And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, 

And creeping thing,

and beast of the earth after his kind:

and it was so. 

And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, 

and cattle after their kind,

and every thing that creeps upon the earth after his kind:

And God saw that it was good.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, 

Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth,

and subdue it:

and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and

over the fowl of the air, and over

every living thing that moves upon the earth.

And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,

which is upon the face of all the earth, 

and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed;

to you it shall be for meat.

And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creeps upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

And God saw every thing that He had made,

and, behold, it was very good. 

And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

DAY SEVEN:

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, 

and all the host of them.

And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made; 

and He rested on the seventh day from all His work

which He had made.

And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it:

because that in it He had rested from 

all His work which God created

and made.

Genesis 1 and 2:1-3