The woman was deceived into thinking she lacked. In reality, she had everything she already desired.
The man fell into sin not out of deception, but out of attempting to provide life. Life was already provided for.. He “already” had life in God, if only he had just gone to God (an opportunity for God to provide the life) about what transpired with his woman instead of trying to “fix it”. His earnest desire was for life to be made manifest in this situation..
it shows for woman: you can have everything you can ever dream of: perfect house (a huge garden that’s all yours with perfect temperature and beauty, perfect husband (Adam), perfect Father (God), total acceptance from God and man, perfect body image (came directly from Adam himself, if Adam were to reject her body he’d only be rejecting HIS body).. but there’s a lie out there that can cause you to forget about it all and make you feel like there’s just one more thing to make yourself feel as you ought to be
For men: we can have the most beautiful kingdom or living place ( Garden of eden), most loving, beautiful submissive wife, perfect Father, but the minute we think we can maintain this ourselves, that can work to fix everything ourselves we don’t need God to save anything, that it was somehow through our power that all this is here, we can submerge both our selves and family in the darkest death imaginable.
Darkest death = a works based relationship. There is no intimacy in that.
And it happens to all of man that sometimes these truths are not apparent or clear to us; it’s not the end of the world that sometimes we “forget”... it happens.. there doesn’t have to be guilt and shame if we find ourselves not aligned with these truths at times. We as body of Christ remind one another and point to Jesus.. it’s the spirit’s responsibility to teach us and persuade our thinking; our submissiveness to Him then allows him to penetrate the most intimate parts of our being and our hearts. This effortless and voluntary submissiveness happens in our vulnerability, the place where we could be tempted to be afraid or insecure about something we see in ourselves. We see His heart for us lovingly reaching out to us, always persuading us of the value He sees in us, telling us everything is going to be okay, he will handle our heart and our lives well. This grows our love for him; this love allows us to trust Him. In our nakedness before God, we experience true intimacy over and over again throughout our lives, the intimacy of union and oneness in Him. It grows, it becomes more habitual over time. We shed the carnal mind more and more. God helps us to establish new neural pathways that literally rewire our thinking.. our judgements, the basis of our decisions, everything is being reconstructed. We have the choice to stay in our old ways (that always produces the same pains and hurts in the end) or learning from the spirit new ways to see and experience life. It’s our choice and he won’t cross that line (manipulation or external pressure) because He created us as beings that are like him, to have the motivation of what we do be born from what’s in our hearts.
