Day 5: Girls Devo

Day 5 - Genesis 3:14-19

WORD: Consequences 

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Eve

Genesis 3:14-19

So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, “Cursed are you above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.  And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”

To the woman he said,

“I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat of it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.” 

Additional Reading:

Ephesians 5:22-24

Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

Observations

Oh the things that happen when we sin. I find in interesting that God gives judgement in the opposite order that they blamed one another. To the woman he increase her pain in childbirth, but also he gives us the ability to forget the pain.  My first child was not your ideal pregnancy.  She was premature and I had her by C-section.  By God's grace and love our lives were both saved.  Three years later I was ready to try for another child and 4 1/2 years after my daughter, my son was born as a V-back baby. He was only 9 days early.  Another consequence of Eve sin was her husband was to rule over her.  There is comfort in submitting to our husbands.  For one it means we have a husband,  if you doubt this ask a single girlfriend or the one that longs to be engaged to their boyfriend.  I am not saying everyone has to be married, I am just saying it is a blessing to be married.  God has a plan for all women single or married we are all loved in his sight.  Also there is comfort in submitting to a husband because they provide us with protection, kind of like an umbrella. Keep a pin in this second one because we will show examples of it in days ahead.  

Ponder this

How would your life change if you submitted to your husband?  Is your church submitting to Christ?  What if your church was submitting to Christ? 

Just for fun

Play a board game, either physical board or electronic.