Genesis 3:16b To the woman he said, “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;
In light of yesterday’s reflection about order of offenses and punishment, these verses make a kind of sense, even though I don’t like the sense being made. The serpent, instigator of the entire mess, faced the most severe, most personal punishment. Eve, who negatively influenced Adam to eat the fruit, faced the second most severe, personal punishment: pain in childbirth.
Genesis 3:16b with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
What bothers me is that Adam, the supposed head of the household, faces no personal punishment, nothing that affects him physically, just how hard he has to work (if he wants to grow crops). It just doesn’t sit right with me. Adam knew he wasn’t supposed to eat the fruit and yet he did. So why does he not have any painful personal punishments? I just want to understand.
Genesis 3:17a To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’
Precious Savior, I know that Your thoughts are nothing like my thoughts, and Your ways are far beyond anything I could imagine (Is 55:8), and I am thankful. I also know that You created me to seek and to ask in an attempt to understand. Thank You…for that innate curiosity and for the ability to read Your word, ask questions, seek answers, and draw closer to You. Always. Amen.
Genesis 3:17b “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.
Have a blessed day.