Food For Thought

 Disclaimer: Obviously I am not an actual angel. However, I feel like God speaks to my heart and I would love to share it with you. Please enjoy.

During the church service this morning my nephew Chris, who is the pastor of our church, pointed out something I had never thought about before.

When God created the earth He made a beautiful garden, the Garden of Eden. In the center of the garden. He placed two trees. They were the tree of life, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

God then created His greatest of all creations, Adam and Eve. He put them in the garden to live forever surrounded by all that beauty. God told them they could eat what they wanted except they were not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Hating them because they were created in the image of God, Satan set out to destroy Adam and Eve. He convinced Eve to eat of the forbidden fruit. She, in turn, offered the fruit to Adam, who also ate it. Consequently, sin entered into mankind by way of eating food offered to them by Satan.

We did not personally eat from the forbidden tree, but sin is now in all humans as the result of Adam and Eve eating that food.

Because we as human beings have no way of ridding ourselves of sin, God made a way for us. He didn’t have to do that, but being who He is, His love for us made it impossible for Him to not help us and make a way out. So, Jesus came to earth to give Himself as the perfect sacrifice and die for our sin.

One of the last things Jesus did before He went to the cross to redeem us from our sin was to enjoy His last supper with His disciples. During that supper He broke bread and drank wine with them. If you read John 6:48 – 58 you will see that Jesus told them the bread is His body, and the wine is His blood. He said whoever eats this bread and drinks this wine will live forever with Him. This symbolizes His body being broken and His blood being shed on the cross as the perfect sacrifice for our sin. Jesus tells us there is nothing we can do that is good enough to get us to heaven.  Anyone who accepts His sacrifice as the only way to be forgiven for our sin will be forgiven and have eternal life with Him.

Isn’t it interesting that Satan offered mankind the forbidden fruit to bring sin into our souls and condemn our souls forever. Yet many years later Jesus offered us bread and wine to symbolize His body and blood being sacrificed for us to redeem our souls from that very sin.

Although we did not physically eat the forbidden fruit or the bread and wine, we have suffered and benefitted from them both. Food was used to bring sin into the world and then food again was used to save us from that sin.

Isn’t is amazing that anything Satan does for our bad, God creates something beautiful and even more powerful to fix the damage Satan caused.

Think about it.

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