Individual Attention

 

Genesis 3:14 The Lord God said to the serpent,
“Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. 15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”
16 To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.”
17 And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree
of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; 18 thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. 19 By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; or you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

At the beginning of this chapter, there are three characters involved in the Fall.  Each was responsible for his/her part in this drastic event. Each made excuses. Therefore, God said something to each one. His reply fit the part that person had in the event and the results of their failure on their future.  What we must also realize here is that God had spoken to them before. They had not paid attention to His instructions. May we listen more intently, and obediently, when God gives us instruction and correction.