Ash Wednesday 

Genesis 3:6-19 "When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it.  She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it." 

The woman(eve) saw the fruit and it was good and pleasing to the eye, she ate of it and gave some to her husband! Thus, sin entered into the world! 

The beautiful Bathsheba also was pleasing to the eye of David in 2nd Samuel 11; and again the appeal to the eye caused much trouble for David and his family. His sin became much more complicated as he murdered to cover it up. But like Adam and Eve sin separated him from God until the prophet Nathan caused him to repent. 

As for Eve, and all mothers, there is pain in child birth, for the man Adam, he would earn his living by the sweat of his brow and thorns and thistles would plague him all his life. For David it brought death, incest, and rebellion to his family. And yet God’s Grace is such that he calls David a man “after His own heart”!

And finally to all mankind sin brought death, (from dust you were formed, to dust you shall return, Gen 3:19). And such is the story of man from generation to generation, and
it hasn’t changed in the least in the present age. Sin still runs rampant in the world and death and destruction are its consequences.

For you see, 1 Peter 5:8 says the devil walketh about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour, he loves to sneak up on Christians especially and catch them off guard, for he knows our weaknesses.

However, God had a plan to save man from his behavior, and to conquer sin, eternal death, and the power of the devil! Gal 4: 4-7; At just the right time God sent forth His Son born of a
woman, born under the law, to REDEEM those that were under the law that we might receive the adoption of sons! Ah!!! When we put our faith and trust in Him, Jesus, we become children of the Heavenly Father!!!!

John 1:12 but to all who did receive Him, who believed in His Name, He gave the right to become children of God!!! That my friends is the best news ever! Jesus came, suffered and died, and rose again!!!

Hallelujah!!!! 
So my prayer is that when any of us, myself included, take satan’s bait, we will repent and remember Jesus and our status because of His Grace, and will know beyond the shadow of a doubt that we are God’s forgiven children because of His plan and because of the sacrifice of Jesus which we begin observing this Ash Wednesday.

God’s Blessings to His children (you and I).
Gary R.