FWBG - Genesis - 3.3

On the Fall

The consequences of the fall were immediate and great:

• shame (humans recognize their nakedness and cover up)
• separation (humans are banished from Paradise/Eden)

When I have nothing to hide, and I'm completing my work both at home and my job to a degree that I'm satisfied with results, then shame and anxiety seem so small.

God gives grace to people, and he offered grace in the beginning as one of his responses to sin.

I can't help but recognize the wrestle with the reality of the Fall, and I don't mean the state of human today - I think we're clearly fallen. But I mean the record in Genesis 3... I think Genesis 1-11 tells a story to explain human history but doesn't necessarily give us a play-by-play transcription of that history. So I need to personally be careful in how much analysis I do of the physical reality of Genesis 3 and be sure to filter my perception of it through the lens of the rest of the Bible.

Jesus is the snake-crusher promised in 3:9, and he offers grace every day for sin to those he loves.

May Jesus today grant me grace to work hard but have the right perspective. The things I stress about in my life, I'm afraid are less important, less weighty than the weight of anxiety they cause. Perhaps the anxiety I am dealing with is a direct result of the Fall, and it continues as I hide away or try to give time and energy to the wrong things.