Hello, my name is Eve

I have never been one to fall into peer pressure or doing what other people think is cool or been tempted by anything that could get me into real trouble, (maybe a little scolding from my parents for staying out later than I should but other than that) my record is pretty clean.

So I've always had a difficult time seeing any similarities between Eve (the first woman) and myself, the similarity usually stopped at the fact that we are both female.
In fact most of the time I think Eve is quite... well stupid, For letting the serpent tempt her, convincing her husband to try it AND THEN trying to hide from God. It doesn't sound like a good thing to do, in fact it could only get worse once you're trying to hide from God.

But if you really think about it that serpent (aka the devil) can be very very tempting and shouldn't be underestimated, everyone's fallen into something of the sort at sometime in their life. Suddenly Eve isn't sounding quite as dumb to me.

THEN, I was thinking about it some more and I know that when I've done something I shouldn't have- like disobeyed my parents, not doing my homework and when I disobey God, I hide from those people (parents, teachers, and shameful as it is to admit- God) because well I don't want to get in trouble, I don't want them to know or find out. And that usually ends up making it worse... Especially when I'm trying to avoid God.

So really I'm not all that different from Eve once I've thought it through...
                                                                                         (Another similarity...I love apples! Weird right?!)

I quite enjoy this mini revelation, because I often find it hard to relate to people in the Old Testament but this has been a huge eye opener.

Has anyone realized lately how much they relate to some characters they didn't think they did? If so... Leave a comment! 

For God so loved the world

I, like most people have often struggled with loving others as God loves us, like commanded. And of course it's natural that no one can love somebody like that because, well... we aren't God.

But with certain people it does seem a lot more difficult. You've met those people who have completely opposite viewpoints than you, get themselves into a load of problems that could quite easily be avoided, they don't seem to have any healthy lifestyle choices and these people just seem to cause chaos in other people's lives and can be just plain rude about the whole thing. Those kind of people (to me anyway) are the ones I find difficult to love but...

I was reading John 3:16

"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." 

Yea, I've read that one before. But I realized that this doesn't say:

 'because we were so loveable God loved us and gave his only Son'


Nor can I think of any other verse off the top of my head that says we are loveable
I think this brings up the point again of how unworthy we really are.
Like I already said, sometimes it can be very difficult to love somebody who seems unlovable, which makes it even more incredible that we are so loved by God,  just as we are!