Good morning…
I hope and pray that this finds everyone in good spirits and if anyone is going through anything I pray that this will encourage your faith and joy in the Lord (which is your strength).
I thought I had shared this here back when I first wrote it as a part of my studies. At the time that I initially shared this I was still on social media and that is where it was originally posted. I no longer have access to those posts. Nevertheless…
I want to show you something that we have that is a reminder daily of 1. God’s love for us all and 2. God’s powerful provision and protection for us all.
That’s right I said a daily reminder.
If you have any fresh fruits and vegetables in your home, it should remind you of just how much God cares for us all.
Every time you walk into a grocery store and you walk to the fresh fruit and vegetable area, it should remind you of just how much God cares for us all.
This is what you need to remember
GOD REVERSED THE CURSE
(Excuse me for the all cap case but every time I think about it I “shout!”)
God never intended for us to experience the troubles and sorrows we are experiencing today. That was not HIS divine purpose for us.
We all know what happened in the Garden of Eden.
We know that it was the serpent who deceived, and that it was Adam and Eve who believed and followed the lie. We know this. We also know that because of Adam, sin entered the world and death through sin.
On that day of disobedience, God did not curse Adam and Eve. Because of Adam, God cursed the ground and Adam was told it would only produce thorns and thistles.
Genesis 3:17-19 New International Version
17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’
“Cursed is the ground because of you;
through painful toil you will eat food from it
all the days of your life.
18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.
19 By the sweat of your brow
you will eat your food
until you return to the ground,
since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
and to dust you will return.”
I repeat:
Adam was told that in pain he would work the land and it would produce thorns and thistles.
Listen, thorns hurt. I know this for a fact as I have to use pliers to pull up the wild blackberry vines that keep trying to come up along the front of my house. The lemon tree also has big thorns that are sharp too.
Our food today is not what Adam and Eve and their progeny ate. Thorns and thistles are what grew for them.
We are also told that the wages of sin is death.
Therefore, what reverses the curse is death.
In Noah’s day, the deaths that occurred during the flood, when God washed the earth, reversed the curse that was placed on the ground. The deaths that occurred in the flood paid the wages of sin that was charged to the ground.
Many times when we think of the flood of Noah’s Day and the covenant God made with Noah, what we call the Noahic Covenant, we immediately think of the Rainbow.
If asked about the Rainbow covenant, we say that God promised to never destroy all life from the earth with a flood.
Then we speak of our day and we say that it won’t be by flood, but by a fire next time as we quote 2 Peter 3:7.
Though what we quote about the Rainbow is true, when our focus is solely on the Rainbow, we miss something so significant.
We miss the reverse of the curse and its great impact on us today.
I restate Adam was not cursed, the ground was. And God reversed it and we see the effect of the curse being reversed every time we go into our kitchens and pull out fresh fruit and vegetables. We see the reverse of the curse every time we go into our gardens. We see the reverse of the curse every time we go to the grocery store and walk to, or past, the fresh fruit and vegetable section.
We enjoy oranges and apples, berries and melons, greens and lettuce, and more. I’m talking about what grows above the ground, not the root veggies that grow under the ground.
God created a beautiful garden filled with many wonderful fruits and veggies, but disobedience caused the first couple to be expelled from the bounty that God had prepared for them.
What they had, they lost.
And they couldn’t get it again because the ground was cursed to produce thorns and thistles.
It’s like going into the desert and trying to grow a garden. How successful will that be ?
Funny that now I understand how it was that Noah got drunk after coming out of the ark. LOL. While we do not know what his occupation was before going into the ark, after he came out we are told that he became a farmer.
20 And Noah began to be a farmer, and he planted a vineyard. 21 Then he drank of the wine and was drunk
Genesis 9:20 NKJV
Imagine tasting grapes for the first time and then overeating them to the point of drunkenness lol.
Anyway, God is so amazing and so is the word of GOD. When I first realized this I was so overjoyed that I created a YouTube video regarding this blessing that I was just coming to recognize and no longer take for granted.
God is also so faithful. and I find myself so very grateful.
Taste the Rainbow.
What a wonderful reminder we have been given.
I am so grateful that the ground produces more than thorns and thistles lol.
I mentioned in the above video that it was a continuation from what I shared based upon my amazing study of Psalm 119: 22. I found the video and want to share that with you also.
Between a Father and HIS daughter 