“You will
not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat from it your
eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
In these verses, after the serpent questions the
validity of what God told Eve when he directed her to not eat from a specific
tree, he now says that God’s warning was a lie.
He goes even further to say that God is up to some sort of trick.
God is holy and just and loving, and when he
speaks to us about our lives and gives us warnings, i.e. don’t gossip – because
it separates friends – He means it. And
his warnings are never some sort of trick.
Everything he says or directs us to do is motivated by love.
The Bible says that God is love. He’s the very definition of love, and he
cannot lie, nor trick us, nor does he fear sharing too much with us about
Himself. He is truth and actually wants
a relationship with us so much that he sent his Spirit to dwell in us.
Make sure that what you’re hearing lines up with
who God says he is. You can trust Him,
even if all you’ve ever known from others has been hurtful and deceitful.
God is love.
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