DAILY DEVOTION MCZ MISSION DEPARTMENT
Genesis 3:15
"And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel"
The Promise of Redemption
In drooping flower and falling leaf Adam and his companion witnessed the first signs of decay. Vividly brought to their minds was the stern fact that every living thing must die. Even the air, upon which their life depended, bore the seeds of death. But mortals were not abandoned to the results of the evil they had chosen. This sentence, spoken in the hearing of our first parents, was to them a promise.
Before they heard of the thorn and the thistle, of the toil and sorrow that must be their portion, or of the dust to which they must return, they listened to words that could not fail of giving them hope. All that had been lost by yielding to Satan could be regained through Christ.
The statement in our theme verse, though marred by sin, speaks not only of creation but of redemption. The trees cast off their leaves, only to be robed with fresher and in every manifestation of creative power is held out to the assurance that we put on the new self, created to be like God in true "righteousness and holiness" (Ephesians 4:24,) Thus the very objects and operations of nature that bring so vividly to mind our great loss become to us the messengers of hope.
As far as evil extends, the voice of our Father is heard, bidding His children see in its results the nature of sin, warning them to forsake the evil, and inviting them to receive salvation
Prayer
Lord we pray that Your presence will never depart from us, but will enable us to shun the voice of the deciver
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