"Shamed and Blamed"

"Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil." (Psalms 40:14) You really have to wonder what the devil was thinking when he went up against God; whatever it was, he must have had some sort of a plan in order to cause so many of God's angels to follow him, and to be cast out of heaven. I don't care who you are, you are no match for the devil; but "greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world" (1 John 4:4), so you had better make sure the Spirit of Jesus Christ is in you, before you try and take on the devil. This Sunday I have the honor of giving the message at church, so it just so happens my message is pretty much the same title as this posting today, and it will be based upon Genesis 3:7-13; maybe I will get into the curses, but I believe God wants me to focus on Adam and Eve being shamed, and then blaming that shame on something else. Adam was the worst, because he not only blamed the woman, but he blamed God as well; that really takes some nerve; he might as well have included the tree, by saying, Well if you hadn't had that tree here in the first place, then this wouldn't had happen. It is all about choice, and it is about our free will that God has given to us; and because we have free will, there is always a choice between good and evil. That word 'evil' is such a misguided word, we tend to place it at the end of a certain spectrum, as if bad is just being bad, but evil is being worst; when in reality, evil is not being good; even disagreeable or displeasing qualifies for evil. Of all the things God placed in the garden, there was nothing that He called bad or evil, except the fact that Adam did not have a woman; yet, Adam blames the woman for his fall, and blames God for having given her to him. He sure wasn't complaining when he had first laid eyes on her... "And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found a help meet for him. And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof. And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made He a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed." (Genesis 2:20-25)