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LEAN ON HIM

Text : Proverbs 3:5

 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

One major thing that happened in the  garden of Eden was that man became aware of another option outside God. The opening of Eve and Adam's eyes was simply a gain of another understanding(sight). This sight made man to start running his own affairs without God. For instance, Adam and Eve became a fashion designer because they gained sight. They sew leaves(from fig tree). 

Can you imagine! Man who should have dominion over fig leaves now had to ask for coverings from the tree. 

The initial plan of God for man was to be eternally clothed with  God's glory. If I may ask you, what type of designer clothes do you think the angels are wearing in heaven? Of course, you know the answer. They wear God's glory. 

Adam could not even clothe himself appropriately, God had to make him a better alternative(animal skin). Even the alternative God gave them was still low compared to their former clothing(God's glory). They were so clothed with God's full glory that they could not see nakedness, because they were clothed with God's glory. *When you start drawing coverings from the externals, then glory has departed from the inside.* Therefore Nakedness and Shame becomes imminent. Don't ever draw your glory and honour from the externalities. 

Even the lily has a beautiful clothe on itself than Solomon. (Mathew 6:28-30).
Solomon herein is admonishing you again not to trust in your own understanding. Adam and Eve trusted in theirs and they missed God. Since, their eyes became opened, man has been in the danger of doing his own thing without God's leadings. See for instance, Cain, a vagabond left God's presence and he still did well(like any carnal man would say).

And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.  And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch. Genesis 4:16-17.

After He left God(which is an advancement of his parents' sin), he was fruitful in his body, he prospered financially as well. *Please don't be deceived, a vagabond like Cain can do well and prosper in many ways, yet without God's presence and  approval upon his life.* 

If you consider it very well, the major thing the devil achieved in man was for him to gain sight. This is an understanding that can run things without God. Since Cain left God's presence, his generation began to do stuffs. They advanced in many ways, but outside of God. They devil began to culture them. (Gen 4:19-24).

May the Lord save you from a sight(understanding) that will take you far away from him. 

To be cont'd.


Bible Reading:Genesis 3:1-5.

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