Post-Eden Post-Calvary Pre-Eternity

Inspired in part by a world washed white with snow...

after yesterday's sunshine, blue skies and robin songs!

But mostly inspired by today's devotion...

Above devotion from the book

Morning by Morning Daily Devotional Readings by Charles Spurgeon

Gen3:1

Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field 

which the LORD God had made. 

And he said unto the woman, 

Yea, hath God said, 

Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

Sin wields its will with wily art

To ease us into apathy

Unless we stand on solemn guard

We cannot fight the enemy

Or recognize ravenous wolves

Clothed cunningly in sheep’s disguise

Or war against the hiss that pulls

Its crafty wool over our eyes

Sin wants perpetrators to wink

At what should cause us agony

Deception hoists its sparkling drink

Without a care for Calvary

It soothes the sacred prick of guilt

And woos the conscience with excuse

It drowns the groans where Pardon spilt

With pleasure’s lure and laughter’s ruse

Sin is the foe, though hard to tell

It masquerades as friend to all

Sin decorates the road to hell

With what keeps us comfortable

No caution signs to notify

The crowd that throngs the downward slope

Ah, who will save them from the lie

That scorns the cross and Living Hope

Sin blinds half-seekers to the truth

The Tempter, a most subtil beast

Preys on the innocence of youth

It bribes desire with a feast

Without the whole armor of God

Not one would stand a fighting chance

Fooled by hell’s beguiling façade

And frauds that foster ignorance

Sin, surely sin has cursed us all

Its fruit, so pleasing to the eye

We ate and partook of the Fall

That caused the Son of God to die

But Death could not contain I Am

The victory it could not win

Sin could not taint the sinless Lamb

He rose triumphant over sin

Sin wields its weapons, but take heart

The blood of Christ cleanses its stain

And we can thwart its evil dart

If we on solemn guard remain

After we repent and believe

Sin is not master anymore

The Holy Spirit we receive

Will aid if we for aid implore

© Janet Martin

Matthew 10:16
Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves;

 therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.

2 Corinthians 11:3
I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent's cunning, 

your minds may be led astray from your simple and pure devotion to Christ.

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