Adam replied “The woman you gave me—she gave me and I ate”

After having been asked if he had eater the forbidden fruit, Adam shifted blame. It can have done nothing for the already fractured relationship between Adam and Eve. Now to the feelings of guilt and shame springing from what she had done, was added the sense of betrayal she would be feeling for being blamed for Adam's part in what went wrong. How typical of human nature! They say that the breakup of the marriage both parties typically blame the other for 100% of what went wrong! But it’s not just in marriage relationships!

As image bearers of God, Adam and Eve had fully reflected His Glory. But now that image was tarnished. And all it had taken was one transgression. It’s diabolical actually, but it does reflects reality. I mean if you add one thimbleful of fine old scotch to a barrel of sewage, it remains sewage. But if you add one thimbleful sewage to a barrel of fine old scotch, it becomes sewage! The one transgression is the fly in the ointment, the smudge on an otherwise perfect canvas. No wonder the Scriptures can tell us that all have fallen short of the Glory of God (Romans 3:23).

But how to restore that glory? You can’t unscramble eggs, but God can! But He could only do this at incredible cost to Himself on the cross. And the cross not only brought about forgiveness of sins, as important as that is. No, the cross made it possible for the Lord of Glory to begin the transformation of those who would fully cooperate with his character polishing, to restore us to full glory on that day. In particular, “When we see Him, we will be like Him” (1 John 3:2). Hallelujah!

Father, many of us have massively underestimate what needed to happen in order for us to be fit for heaven. Thank You Lord that You loved us so much You were willing to pay the incredible price to make it possible to restore us to glory. And thank You Lord that as we gaze intently on You then we with unveiled face, continually seeing as in a mirror the Glory of the Lord, are progressively being transformed into Your image image from one degree of glory to glory (2 Corinthians 3:18 AMP). For this I praise and thank You this morning Lord, in Jesus Name Amen