“A DELIGHT TO THE EYES!”

“A DELIGHT TO THE EYES!”

Genesis 3:1-7                                              (ESV )
“1 Now the serpent was MORE CRAFTY than any other beast of the field that the LORD GOD had made. He said to the woman, "Did GOD actually say, 'You shall not eat of any tree in the garden'?"
2 And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden,
3 but GOD said, 'You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'"
4 But the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die.
5 For GOD knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like GOD, knowing good and evil."
6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was A DELIGHT TO THE EYES, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.
7 Then THE EYES OF BOTH WERE OPENED, and THEY KNEW THAT THEY WERE NAKED. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.”

The word FAITH is has been “hijacked” by “the enemy” to mean doing anything we think is good, when in fact, FAITH should be KNOWING that GOD IS GOD and that HIS wrath is greatly hidden and skewed by “the great deceiver”!  Having our EYES OPENED to KNOW WE ARE NAKED before a HOLY GOD is a humbling and scary thing!  Until we SEE that our only HOPE is to accept the sacrificial gift that JESUS paid on our behalf on Calvary, we cannot fully understand HIS LOVE and MERCY.

Adam and Eve were unable to SEE what “the enemy” was hiding from them.  Spiritual death is far more fatal than losing our physical bodies.  For a great part of my life I have sought whatever was “A DELIGHT TO THE EYES”, or whatever satisfied my flesh with no thought of what GOD had planned for HIS GLORY!  FAITH is not Believing that everything will be “A DELIGHT TO THE EYES”, but that GOD is going to be Glorified in our lives!  Only after I began daily digging into Scripture has my life been transformed into what GOD has for me.  No longer am I fixated on what is “A DELIGHT TO THE EYES”, but what will Glorify HIM!

Becoming a person of true FAITH, and not what “this world” accepts as living right, is my desire.  SEEing the REAL picture of what is transpiring (2 Kings 6:15-22), and KNOWING that our battle is NOT with flesh and blood (Ephesians 6:12), makes my FAITH grow even stronger and deeper.  “A DELIGHT TO THE EYES” is no longer my goal, but serving the CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSES!