Eve and the Apple

We've been studying Genesis 3 in my Development Program, which talks about the Fall of Man, and we had to answer the question of: Why did Eve eat the apple? If you're not familiar with Genesis 3, let's do a little recap:

But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.

Adam and Eve are living on earth in perfect companionship with God. They have the whole earth to themselves and all the animals and plants they want. And they are naked and not ashamed. And then the serpent comes along and says, "You can have more. You can be more. You can be like God." Sounds alot like the advertisements we hear every day.

It's hard to read this scene when you know all the implications behind it. It's also hard to read because I know I am so much like Eve. I have doubted what God has given me is good. I have doubted the Truths that God has told me. And I have taken matters into my own hands when God is not delivering, so in a way, I have tried to be my own god.

I have eaten the apple in my own way, and I am aware of my own nakedness. Out of shame, I have tried covering up my sins with "loincloths," but they are never sufficient for what Christ has already done for me.

I have hidden from God, and He still calls out to me.

Everything in my life here and now is God-ordained, and He has deemed it good. So why would I doubt His judgment over mine? He is the creator of all things that are good. I am mere dust compared to Him.

And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them. Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—” therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.

For all the days of our lives, we are to reach out to God for our provisions, and we have to trust that what He gives us is good.