Genesis 2:4-9
"Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed."
(GENESIS 2:8)
(GENESIS 2:8)
INSIGHT
GOD CAN TURN YOUR WEED PATCH LIFE INTO A FRUITFUL GARDEN. AS HE WORKS IN YOU, ALL YOUR WORK WILL BECOME MEANINGFUL.
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Genesis 2:4-9
New International Version 1984 (NIV1984)
Adam and Eve
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Footnotes:
a.
Genesis 2:5 Or land; also in verse 6
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Genesis 2:5 Or land; also in verse 6
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Genesis 2:6 Or mistd. NEVER FORSAKEN [PART 5]
with J.J. Jasper
Have you experienced God's comfort first-hand? Nothing is more powerful for a person whose heart is greatly troubled. Although God gives comfort freely, He also asks us to do something with it.
Genesis 2:7 The Hebrew for man (adam) sounds like and may be related to the Hebrew for ground (adamah); it is also the name Adam (see Gen. 2:20). from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
8 Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. 9 And the Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground— 7 the Lord God formed the man[ and there was no man to work the ground, 6 but streams[ and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth[This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created.
When the Lord God made the earth and the heavens— 5 and no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth[
Gardening is hard work, and yet it is rewarding. There are profound reasons why this is so. We have a connection with the soil that goes all the way back to creation.
Though God spoke the heavens and the earth into existence, He formed the animals and the first man, Adam, from the "dust of the earth," the soil. Can you picture God's hands shaping the intricate human being into life? God placed him in the Garden of Eden "to work it and take care of it."
God, who planted the first garden, let Adam be its gardener. But Adam was a type of garden, too. God worked in him to produce the fruit of obedience to His will. After God formed Eve out of Adam, they were both His "gardens." He cultivated them with loving care, giving them everything they needed for a perfect life with Him.
Yet Adam and Eve sinned, turning the Garden of Eden and themselves into a weed patch. Still God provided a Rescuer for them and us. Now human beings can once again be God's "gardens." Abiding in Jesus, we will bear much fruit
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