When you read this passage from Genesis, do you notice anything? Or rather do you notice what is absent?
There are two glaring absences - first the apple. For years we have heard that Eve and Adam ate the apple, but really it just says that they ate the fruit. The fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The fruit they weren't to have.
But do you see the other thing that isn't mentioned in this scripture? Sin. There is no specific mention of sin by name, yet that's what this passage is about. But we don't really take time to define what that sin is. At a quick glance, we would say that it was the sin of disobedience - Adam and Eve did what God told them not to do. But I would say that there is a second instance of disobedience as well. When they abandoned their mission.
Friends, we can follow all of the rules and still be disobedient to the mission.
Which is a hard truth to swallow.
What does disobedience look like in your life? Or what does obedience to the mission of God look like for you?
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