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Free to Choose?: Genesis 3:5

Over and over, Scripture teaches that God’s laws are for our good and our protection. Obedience is the pathway to freedom.

But Satan places in our minds the idea that God’s laws are burdensome, unreasonable, and unfair, and that if we obey Him we will be miserable. In the garden, he caused Eve to focus on the one limitation God had placed on her. The deceiver’s motto is “Have it your way: no one has the right to tell you what you can or cannot do.”

So, we throw off the restrictions, determined to “have it our way.” We’re free to choose our own way, just as Eve was free to eat the forbidden fruit. But there’s one thing we are not free to choose, and that’s the consequences.

Believing and acting on a lie will ultimately lead to bondage. But when we discover the truth that true freedom comes from obedience, and when we act on that truth, our bondage is shattered.

Make It Personal:

What lies have you believed about God? What consequences have you experienced as a result of believing them?