I was thinking about it the other day and I think that Eve was a blond! She HAD to be! I mean THINK about it....
She was in a garden of absolute PERFECTNESS. Her and her husband are the ONLY humans, which means they are the ONLY ones that have ever talked to each other because animals do NOT talk. Then one day a snake/serpent comes along(Now just seeing the snake would have me SCEAMING)and then the snake starts talking to Eve...Now I don't know about you all, but if ANY animal EVER started talking to me I would be SCARED TO DEATH, you would NOT want to be around to see what happened!( Probabley anyone near would for sure need hearing aides)
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However, did Eve scream or run away? NO!!! Without EVEN hesitating, Eve just starts talking right BACK to the snake. I mean read it in Genesis three and they are just having this TOTAL, nonchalant conversation with each other. I was thinking about that and I was like okaaaaay who just starts talking to a SNAKE?! ONLY a blond, ONLY a blond! (AKA- My best friend JACQUI!;)
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But I realized that there was a reason why Eve talked to the snake, and in reality it probabley wasn't because she was a blond! ;) (According to my pastor Eve was probabley a brunette-woot, woot!) It was because she wasn't scared of the snake. She had NO reason to because first of all sin had never entered into the world, but it was more than just that. As odd as it may seem to us, seeing an animal talk was not a scary thing to her. The devil knew this, and he just the exact way he could make an apeal to her. He knew that like a typical woman she would have no problem talking to him.
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Isn't that just the way it is when the devil tempts us today. Its never a scary thing when its happening. It seems so normal, so natural. One day when I was riding home with some of the African girls we bring to church they started telling me about this really nice man they knew. They said that they never knew him in Africa, but that he could tell them things that had happened to them while they were there and he could tell them what they were thinking. And one of the girls said, he was soooo nice but I don't know why but for some reason I just ran away from him. I was like, you guys that man is probabley involved in whichcraft you really need to stay away from him. They were like OH NO Mary! Whichcraft is BAD and evil, but this man was sooooooooo NICE!!! I was like, you guys, the devil isn't going to come to you in a way thats scary to you! I said if come scary angel with a pitfork and a tail came to you and said to steal something would you do it?!?! They were like NOOOOO!!! (But they would if OPRAH told them to! LOL)
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The devil has a way of making sin look fun and glamerous. It doesn't look dirty and trashy. Think about the things you may be tempted by or that you struggle with. I mean there has NEVER been a snake that came to me and said, "Mary, why don't you do some gossiping!!!" But I definateley have found myself in that position quite a few times, and there was NOTHING scary about it at the moment! Like Eve, we're all a little blond when it comes to failing God, or perhaps I should say ignorant. Our only hope is to stay close to God in prayer, “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death” (Romans 8)
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I guess without prayer we're kind of like spiritual blonds! We become ingnorant and blinded to the evil that is around us. But heeeeeey WHY stay a blond, when you can be a brunette?! ;)
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For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 4:15-16
