Genesis Chapter 3

This is beginning of sin, death, and sorrow.
The serpent which is apparently deceitfully attractive convinces Eve that God lied to her about the forbidden fruit of the tree of Knowledge, my son now calls it the know/no tree, and that it will actually make her to know everything and she will not die. Eve, being human is very tempted as would we all be. I sometimes have cursed the ground she walked on especially when I was in labor, but truthfully I am no better than she and would have done the same. This is such an eye opener to the truth that no one is good. We don't deserve heaven but yet God chooses to give it, to us in no doing of our own.
Anyhow, as I read on I think of how I as a mother would have reacted with my children in a similar way. He gives Satan a message that he will be destroyed and spared not. At the same time, he promises a savior that will undo the mess that Adam and Eve started. Vs. 15 In the mean time he assigns a punishment to each of His children. He wants them to learn and He want's us to realize that without Him, we are nothing. We can learn so much from this story. That we shouldn't play with temptation, that God loves us in spite of our sinful nature, that we don't deserve anything we have and therefore should never complain, and that God keeps His promises.
One punishment of Adam and Eve that is so prominent in marriages is the desire for women to rule over men, and men to have rule over women, obviously causing a clash between the two. Thankfully God helps His children with this if they come to Him and ask for it. In the New Testament there is a wonderful amount of help to understanding our roles in marriage, so becoming knowledgeable of these and adding prayer for strength we can have peace in our marriages now. Thanks be to our Savior!
Wow, vs. 22 is interesting. I didn't realize this was in here. I never really thought about the tree of life and what it would do. I also find it interesting that God actually confirms what Satan said, almost word for word. Satan wasn't so much lying as he was making something bad, look good. That's scary. It's something to think about when guarding yourself against false religion and teachings.