So this is the text and image I’ve been considering this week as our church continues it’s series, “Lessons from Eden”. I’ve been thinking about the fallout post-fruit-eating.
We all think about the consequences- serpent crawling on his belly, Eve with pain in childbirth, Adam having to toil on the ground, and of course, death and getting kicked out the Garden. It’s truly the worst day imaginable, no overstatement. The image captures the despair, but as I’ll be speaking of in my sermon this Sunday, there is also some grace. Now some of it is best understood by us because we have the cross and Jesus. But there are also peeks of grace that Adam and Eve had as well.
Notice this image, it’s very dark, but. . . there is that blue sky peeking through the clouds. And while that isn’t in the text, what Adam and Eve are wearing is- clothing provided by God. He clothed them. When you think about their previous clothing, some leaves they put on to hide the nakedness that suddenly shamed them, this clothing provided by God must have been comforting. It may be subtle, kind of like the cloud, but it is a strong statement of grace nonetheless.
Do we also experience subtle signs of God’s grace?
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