Load 16 tons and what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
It’s been pretty much that way ever since God told Adam:
1. the ground is cursed because of you
2. in toil you shall eat of it
3. by your sweat you shall eat bread

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Adam and Even sinned. They were on their way out of the Garden… naked.
God decided they needed clothing so He made garments of skin for the man and the woman. We can be sure that God did not want PETA after Him. The animals would have been slain humanely.
Indeed a took an animal sacrifice to [...]

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Everything is not relative.
Truth is not relative.
There are lies, falsehoods, misrepresentations, distortions, deceptions, and they come in white, red and black.
We can not always say/think, “Well, that’s the way you might look at it, but not me.”
No, indeed. Some things are just plain lies.
The serpent, the great red dragon, the devil, Satan is the father [...]

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I really wonder what God had in mind for childbirth BEFORE He told the woman He would greatly multiply her pain in childbirth.
One thing for sure, He did keep His promise about the pain part.
The memory is fresh in my mind. Not 5 days ago, my 8-month 1-week wife and I went to [...]

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Despite the fact that the man and the woman tried to excuse their way out of the predicament they got themselves in, God came up with a plan to get them out of it.
It wasn’t an immediate plan or something that even they might see in their own lifetimes. But, it was the promise [...]

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Adam played the blame game. He blamed the woman who gave him something to eat. He blamed God for giving him the woman.
God asked the woman, “What have you done?”
She blamed it on the serpent. “He deceived me and I ate.”
And people have been making excuses ever since.
I wondered yesterday and [...]

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Adam and Eve were found out.
They couldn’t hide. The evidence of their wrongdoing was there, or in this case, not there. The fruit was gone.
The question from God was pointed.
The only recourse for Adam was to blame Eve and while at it, blame God.
“The woman you put here with me—she gave [...]

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I wrote yesterday that God asks tough questions.
Here’s another tough one - Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?
There’s a well-known, I guess to people who know it, diet axiom that - even though people don’t see you eat something it still counts when you are [...]

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God asks tough questions. Especially when we have damaged our relationship with Him in some way.
The first question - Where are you?
The second question - Who told you that you were naked?
Doing wrong, missing the mark, coming up short, disobedience, ignoring instructions, intentional mistakes are euphemisms for sin.
When we sin and [...]

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It’s a scary question - Where are you?
My bet is that most of the time we wouldn’t mind being asked where we are.
The operative word, of course, is most. How about some of the time? Or those few times, or even once a day when we don’t want to be found or found out?
It’s a [...]

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When Adam and Even fell for the Devil’s lies they discovered shame, guilt, sin.
Their first inclination was to try and cover it up.
Their second inclination was to try and hide themselves from God, to not be found out.
When God came to visit them in the garden, they tried to hide themselves among the trees. It [...]

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The man and the woman, Adam and Eve, sinned. They succumbed to their desires, ate the fruit, satisfied their senses, chose pleasure over obedience.
The result was shame.
They realized they were naked.
They made efforts to cover themselves up.
Fig leaves proved to be inadequate to hide their wrongdoing.
The man and the woman [...]

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