Category Archives: forbidden fruit

Friday, April 15, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo with no-holds-barred surrender:

“Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner.”
(1 Timothy 2:14)

Eve’s sin was bad, Jesus

but Adam’s was worse.

Adam wasn’t deceived. He knew better and ate the forbidden fruit anyway.

His wife handed him the fruit
so he accepted it and ate it.

Pleasing his wife was more important to him than pleasing You

making her humankind’s first idol.

May I never put anyone or anything ahead of You!

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Exodus 20:3; Deuteronomy 4:16; Deuteronomy 5:7; Psalm 24:3-5; Isaiah 42:8; Isaiah 48:11; Matthew 4:10; Luke 14:26; James 4:17

Wednesday, January 15, 2020

 

Pray this Lazaroo with pedal-to-the-metal commitment:

“Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
(Genesis 3:11)

Yes, I have, Jesus.

God help me!
Yes, I have.

As Adam did when You asked him this question

I’m tempted to explain why I did it.

But I’m not going to bother.

You’d recognize it for what it is:
An embarrassingly weak excuse.

I know what happened to Adam and Eve.

Please help me change!
Don’t kick me out of the garden.

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Genesis 3:23-24; Hosea 6:7; Romans 6:2; Romans 15:4; Romans 5:12-14; 1 Corinthians 15:22; 1 Corinthians 15:45

Sunday, November 10, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo all the way to the marrow of your bones:

“Who told you that you were naked?”
(Genesis 3:11)

It wasn’t You, was it, Jesus?

It was listening to Satan and eating the forbidden fruit
that caused Adam and Eve to feel naked.

Of course, nothing about their appearance had changed.

They weren’t wearing clothes before their disobedience.

But here’s the thing:

Until they sinned, being unclothed didn’t bother them.
It was sin against You that brought shame.

As always.

Only in You

is my shame taken away.

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Genesis 2:25; Deuteronomy 32:5; 2 Kings 19:26; Psalms 22:5; Psalms 31:17; Isaiah 61:7; Romans 9:33; 2 Timothy 1:12