Gen 3:8–19

3:8
Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God moving about in
the orchard at the breezy time of the day, and they hid from the Lord God
among the trees of the orchard.
9
But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”
10
The man replied, “I heard you moving about in the orchard, and I was
afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”
11
And the Lord God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from
the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
12
The man said, “The woman whom you gave me, she gave me some fruit from the
tree and I ate it.”
13
So the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” And the
woman replied, “The serpent tricked me, and I ate.”
14
The Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are
you above all the cattle and all the living creatures of the field! On your
belly you will crawl and dust you will eat all the days of your life.
15
And I will put hostility between you and the woman and between your
offspring and her offspring; her offspring will attack your head, and you
will attack her offspring’s heel.”
16
To the woman he said,“I will greatly increase your labor pains; with pain
you will give birth to children. You will want to control your husband, but
he will dominate you.”
17
But to Adam he said, “Because you obeyed your wife and ate from the tree
about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ the ground is
cursed because of you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of
your life.
18
It will produce thorns and thistles for you, but you will eat the grain of
the field.
19
By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the
ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you
will return.”

 

 

One thought:

Work was meant to be fulfilling, meaningful and joyful – all the time.

 

 

Three questions:

What stands out to you the most in God’s consequences for sin?

 

How have you experienced the pain of the fall?

 

Work today (whatever form that work takes) as God’s worker, giving Him glory in the way that you work.

 

Prayer:

Acknowledge God for His goodness and the one who created us for good works.

Give thanks that despite the curse of sin, we can have hope now and in the future of a world without the effects of the curse.

Ask God to help you and others give Him glory in the way we work.

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