Eve

I was reading about Eve in the garden and it was saying how she was letting what she couldn't have get the best of her. I thought wow that is so true. God had given them everything in the whole garden, except he told her not to eat fruit from one tree. I bet there were lots of trees with lots of good fruit, and only one was off limits. The serpent reminded her of what she didn't have. Satan does that to us a lot too. Whether its our friends nicer cars, house, situations, ect. Store display shelves can be the worst lol. Always reminding us of what we don't have. Those things aren't bad and it's not bad to get them, but God doesn't want that to be our focus, especially if its something he doesn't want for us. I believe God wants the best for us, but he also knows the best for us, which means we don't get whatever we want. God wants our attention on him. Eve lost sight of God and couldn't let go of the one thing He said not to have in the entire garden. Do you sometimes sit and think about the one thing you don't have? Instead we should be looking at what God has already blessed us with!! God gave Adam and Eve so much, in fact everything but one tree!!! We need to shift our focus on what God has given us and what he wants us to do with that. He gives you a home for shelter, or the gift of compassion to help others, whatever it is. Eve let that tree become an idol she put it over Gods own words. Sometimes we constantly strive for what we don't have making it an idol. Working hard for things is not wrong, but working for THINGS over GOD is.

If you read Genesis 3, it is the story of the fall of man.

Satan can also make things seem attractive so that we will want them more than we want the right things. He may make money seem more attractive than time with your family. Eve allowed her contentment to be undermined by Satan, she lost focus of all God had given her. Eve's sin has come down and we are still living in that sin today. We act this way. Greed gets the best of all of us. But praying for a spirit of contentment and wisdom will help us grow into being more like Christ. Writing a list of your blessings puts satan further from getting into your mind in that area. It can be to easy to focus on what we don't have, but God uses Eve's story to show us for a reason that when we do that it is sin and leads to more sin: greed, idols, ect.

Genesis 3:1-7 
Now the serpent was more craft than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, "You must not eat from any tree in the garden?" The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, " You must not eat from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die." "You will surely not die," the serpent said to the woman. "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God< knowing good and evil." When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing tot he eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

prayer:
Jesus you know what is best for us, we don't always listen or understand that. Give us wisdom to trust your plan for us. Let us not be distracted by earthly idols that take our focus off of you. You are the best gift we could ever receive and let us not forget the price you paid, that we too often take for granted.
Amen.