What’s more, God paid them a personal visit every day. He walked with them and talked with them in the cool of the evening. The Scriptures don’t tell us what He said during those visits, but I’m sure He always revealed something marvelous. Maybe He told them secrets of the universe. Or maybe He talked about His wonderful plans for their lives.
Whatever the content of His conversation, I imagine every time Adam and Eve heard Him coming, they said, “Oh, He’s here again! Let’s go see what exciting things He has for us today!”
Sometimes, you have to wonder how Eve could have experienced so much of God’s goodness and still ended up believing the devil’s lies. I can’t figure it out, can you? Yet that’s what happened.
Adam wasn’t out somewhere playing golf at the time, either. He was right there beside her, so they made the same choice. They both sided with the devil and disobeyed the Word of God. As a result, they died spiritually. They lost their garments of light. When God came to speak with them in the Garden, they ran to hide because they couldn’t bear His presence anymore. Fear cut them off. They could no longer walk with Him in His glory and hear the marvelous things He had to say.
Think about what a devastating loss that was. The devil stole from Adam and Eve the most wonderful life anyone has ever known—simply by getting them to doubt the goodness of God.
The Sky’s the Limit
Although it’s a very sad story, for us as New Testament believers there’s good news at the end of it: What the devil accomplished in the Garden has now been undone! As Ephesians 2:4-7 says: “God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.”
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