Day Two: Gen. 3:2-5 The woman
said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit from the trees in the garden. But
about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God said, ‘You must
not eat it or touch it, or you will die.’ ” “No! You will not die,” the serpent
said to the woman. “In fact, God knows that when you eat it your eyes will be
opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
WHAT IS THE ONE MOVIE that you have seen more
than any other? Are you thinking of it? Right now, you could probably pick up
the dialogue from any point in that movie. In fact, you may have incorporated phrases from the film into your
regular conversation. That’s your movie; you know it backward and forward.
In fact, you have such a
personal attachment to that movie that you get offended when people try and
quote it, only to butcher what you know to be the true words. But that’s how
personally you know it.That’s how closely you are
attached to it.
As you read the
encounter between the serpent and Eve in Genesis 3, notice that the serpent
questioned the word of God. And Eve seemed at first to defend those words. But if you read
carefully, you’ll see that when Eve quoted God back to the serpent, she
“almost” got it right.
Almost, but not quite.
And in this case, almost
isn’t good enough. The troubling thing for most of us is that Satan might actually
have a better grasp on the Word of God than we do. He knows who God is, and He knows what God said. If we want to be serious
about defending attacks from the devil, we had better know what God said, too.
Not almost know.
Not sort of know.
Know. Exactly.
And why shouldn’t we? We memorize everything else: song lyrics,
movie lines, favorite quotes—why not the Bible? Could it be that we simply
don’t.
PAUSE AND REFLECT
▷▷How well you do know
God’s Words?
▷▷What keeps you from
enjoying time with God and His Word?
▷▷Could it be that Satan
knows the Word of God better than you do?
▷▷What changes do you need
to make to reverse that?
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