Keep Your Spiritual Antenna up for Clear Reception from God

In Genesis 2:15-17 (NRSV, paraphrased) we are told that the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to take care of it. God commanded the man to eat freely of every tree of the garden except of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil because in the day that he ate of it he would die. This is God’s first test of man’s obedience. Fast-forward to Genesis 3 and the woman and the serpent, the craftiest animal that the Lord God had made, is having a conversation, but it is filled with half- truths and lies. Eventually the lies led to man’s fall from God’s grace and obedience to shame and disobedience.

As a result, the man, the woman, and the serpent were punished for their part in disobeying God. We must trust God, and trust requires having faith in God and accepting His Word. God promised the serpent in Genesis 3:15 (AMP, paraphrased) that because of his deception of the woman (Eve), He would put enmity, or open hostility, between him and the woman, and between his seed and her seed. He shall [fatally] bruise the serpent’s head, and the serpent shalt [only] bruise his heel. This is God’s prophecy of the coming of His only begotten Son for the redemption of mankind. We must not become lax and let our spiritual antenna down; we must practice being at high alert always. When our spiritual antenna is up, our reception from God is clear of static and interference. We must always be alert; Satan is lurking in the atmosphere waiting for the opportunity to make us his next prey. And we talk about static? We can’t hear the Father because of the static – the noise. Let’s protect ourselves. “Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil” (Ephesians 6: 11) “…for we are not ignorant of his schemes” (2 Corinthians 2:11).

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