ACCESS TO GOD

Children of God always have access to Him. This is one of the qualities of God. We need no permission to go before the Lord.

A king or queen gives permission before anyone meets with them, but God does not seek such from us. He is always open to us, and we only need to pray and seek His face.

He says in Jeremiah 33:3 - "Call to Me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know". He is always available when we call, and He is willing to answer us.

We have the privilege to go into the house of The Lord without any physical qualifications. We are all accepted before the Lord, granted we come with a pure heart and clean hands. As Psalm 24:3-4 says, "Who may ascend the hill of the Lord? Who may stand in His holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear deceitfully".

Let us make good use of this privilege, communicate with God frequently and go into the house of the Lord with prayer and supplication. For He is always there to listen to us.

OUR NOBLE ORIGIN

As Christians, we have a noble origin which is God. We were not just born into the world by earthly parents, but we were already destined by God to be born and for a purpose.

Wisdom of Solomon Chapter 8 vs 3: In that she is conversant with God, she magnified her nobility: yea, the Lord of all things himself loved her.

We ought to have a close, personal relationship with our Creator, who is our noble origin. We are not just mere mortals who live, breathe and will die one day. We were made in the image and likeness of God. We are His ambassadors on earth and one day, we will give an account of everything we did with our lives.

Children always run home after doing their schoolwork and playing with friends. They hardly sleep outside. We are always to remain in close contact with our noble origin. Our home, which is God himself. 

There, we will find everything we need to function properly on earth as human beings. Peace of mind, joy, happiness, love, strength and all good things are found in our noble origin.

We should behave in a Godly manner which will identify us as children of God. We should always be in the presence of God and allow Him to direct the course of our lives. We are children of the highest of all. 

Outside of our noble origin, there is danger and all sorts of evil waiting to destroy us. As 1 Peter 5 vs 8 says - Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. The enemy can only be able to destroy a person when he is outside his noble origin, which is God.

Therefore, we all must abide with God who is our noble origin, our home and our place of safety.

EVE AND THE SERPENT

In the bible, when God created the world, he put Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden and instructed them not to eat the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden.

However, in Genesis Chapter 3, the devil came as a serpent and told Eve not to believe what God had said. It told Eve that God didn't want she and Adam to have His kind of wisdom. It told Eve that the fruit would make them like God. Eve believed and took a fruit and ate. She also gave to Adam, and he ate.

Immediately they ate the fruit, their 'eyes' were opened and God's initial plan for humanity changed forever. Sin and death had come in.

The devil deceived Eve and lured her to disobey God. This led God to curse man, woman and the serpent.

There are three lessons to be learnt from this story:

* God's initial plan for humanity which was that there would be no sin nor death has been altered by the disobedience of Eve and Adam. When God gives us an instruction, we should endeavor to obey it, because obedience is better than sacrifice. The real nature of humanity would have been sinless and innocent without this disobedience but something bad happened instead. However, God sent His son Jesus Christ to die for us and take away the sins of mankind. Jesus is the bridge from man to God. However, sin is still present because of Eve's disobedience.

* We should learn to be content with what God has given us. Although, it is always good to aim higher in life, yet we should not strive to overtake the Creator Himself. We should not strive to become master's like the Master Himself, who is God. Eve wanted to become like God Himself, she wanted to become wise like God, knowing good and evil. God made us in His image and likeness. We only have to walk with Him and not try to be as wise as God because, this can never be possible, we'll end up challenging God's instructions.

* The devil always has strategies to contradict the instructions and beautiful life that God has given to us. God made life simple but human beings made it complicated by allowing the devil to deceive us. Whenever God gives us something good, the devil comes to snatch it from us. He uses deceptive measures which sound genuine. We always have to follow the path of God and avoid the traps of Satan. Never think that what God has given to you will be free of the enemy's (Satan) attack. The more God is blessing you, the more there would be temptations and fights from the devil. Expect it and be on guard against Satan. 1 Peter 5:8 says that the adversary, Satan is going around like a roaring lion, seeking whom to devour. We should be watchful and awake. Never let the devil take you away from the beautiful life that God has given you.