Day 22
Physical death is a curse. The day we are conceived, we begin the long slow march to the day we die. As humans, we dread the day, we avoid it at all costs, consciously and unconsciously, we ignore it, we pretend it will not ever come. But since that day in the Garden when Adam & Eve sinned, died spiritually, and were destined to die physically, we have all been under the curse.
Still, grace was there that day.
Genesis 3:22-24 Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—” therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.
He kept them away from the tree of life so they would die, so they wouldn’t ever have a chance to live eternally with that crushing load of sin.
Thank you, Lord, for your grace on the first dark day in human history.
Made for Eternity 