In the beginning, WHO?
Strange question, isn't it? Let me explain with this illustration. God created Adam and Eve. Now, Adam is perfect in body, brilliant in mind and sinless in spirit. God created Eve from a rib of Adam. (This is to answer those folks, who keep asking me to pray for them to find their missing or lost rib aka a wife – the answer is that Adam had a missing rib, not YOU!)
Both were happy, blessed and self sufficient in the Garden of Eden. They had fellowship with God every day. God was their comfort, friend and delight. God told Adam, (now this is before Eve was created from Adam's rib) in Genesis 2:16-17, “And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."
So here the test begins…
Now a perfect Adam and Eve lived happily ever after. Uh, No! They sinned. They disobeyed God. They ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The serpent (tempter) tempted eve and she ate and also gave it to her husband, he ate it too. This spoiled the party. God was upset. They were afraid, filled with shame and guilt. They were all cursed (man, woman and serpent), and driven out of paradise (Eden). Everything was lost and ruined by disobeying God.
In the beginning, WHO?
God spoke to my heart with this message. He asked me, “Whom do you have in the beginning, son?”
Until the time, Adam had God and His word first in his life; he was safe and shielded away from sin. When he gave his wife a place over God, her words and influence caused them to fall in sin. She gave him the fruit and he ate it. She was now more influential over him than God. The devil may tempt you through people around you. Keep God and His Word first in your life, a delight in front of your eyes.
In the beginning ‘GOD'or ‘man'?
Let me ask you, “Whom do you have in the beginning of your life?” “Who takes first place?”
Genesis 1:1 - In the beginning, GOD - when you have God as the beginning of every situation in your life, you are bound to succeed. You will have persecutions, afflictions and troubles. However, He will be with you, in all your sorrows and joys because you have Him in the ruler and Lord over your life. He has promised to be with us in trouble. Psalm 91:15 - When he calls to me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble;
If you trust man or rely on man, you will fall as our first parents did. Jeremiah 17:5 - Thus says the LORD: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the LORD.
Let God have first place in your life. Let His word stand first in your life.
Some scripture verses to help you realize that having God first in your life is the best decision you could ever take.
Psalm 118:8 - It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man.
Psalm 118:9 - It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in princes.
Psalm 146:3 - Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.
Psalm 146:4 - When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish.
Jeremiah 17:7 - "Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD.
Jeremiah 17:8 - He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit."
Psalm 146:5 - Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,
Psalm 20:7 - Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.
Psalm 37:3 - Trust in the LORD, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.
Psalm 37:5 - Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him, and he will act.
Psalm 125:1 - A Song of Ascents. Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever.
Proverbs 3:5 - Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
Isaiah 26:4 - Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD GOD is an everlasting rock.
Psalm 56:11 - in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can man do to me?
Let God and His word be in the beginning of everything and everyone. To Him be all glory and honor, now and forever. Amen.
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