Gen 2:16-17,3:7 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden, but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die.
Gen 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate it, and also gave some to her husband with her. And he ate it.
When God laid out terms and conditions of thriving in Eden,He also preempted the outcomes of its violation .Death penalty was in waiting. A simple conviction from Satan turned the mind of Eve blind and she failed to dissect the intensity of its outcomes which we bear its pain and sting till today. She made up a decision to eat and share with her beloved.
The fruit was sweet and good to the eye,but the outcome of a single bite has trickled down the ages. Choices and decisions forms an integral part of our lives .But decisions are short lived and replaced by its outcomes. Failure to comprehend this secret ,makes it difficulty to make decisions by many. In life we don’t live by decisions but by its outcomes. Sweet fruit may not be bitter but death from it might be unbearable . Many loath in pain and regret of a seemingly good sweet fruit.
May God grant us the wisdom to explore all possible outcomes from a single decision. This will help us say NO to temporarily gratifying decisions but with far reaching consequences.
Further readings :
1 Kings 2:37-46
Eze 3:18-20
Pro 22:3
🙏Blessed Day🙏