"Giving In..."

"Behold, Thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part Thou shalt make me to know wisdom." (Psalms 51:6) I like playing on numbers, and this sixth verse plays right along with that numbers game. Sure Adam had an excuse for eating that fruit, but God did straighten him out on that; and when it was all settled, Adam took the total blame; after all, he did name his wife Eve, after the fall (Genesis 3:20). If you have ever seen the movie "Unstoppable", Kirk shows how things might have went, in that Adam waited to see what would happen to Eve, and then he took of the fruit; he was right there all along, watching her be tempted. What he should have been doing was protecting his wife; as God had given him charge to "dress" and "keep" the whole garden (Genesis 2:15), which means that he was to become a servant and protect everything that God had given him. Instead of giving into sin, Adam should have given into what God had commanded him to do; and for his punishment, God made the task which was once easy and enjoyable, become hard and sorrowful (Genesis 3:17-19). You see, if the truth be told, we hardly ever sin on accident, we set ourselves up to sin by putting ourselves in the wrong place or by making our situation one that makes sin easy; why was Eve even standing there looking at that tree anyway? and why was Adam letting her? The writer of Hebrews points out in Hebrews 12:4, saying, "Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin", which pretty much sums up our lack of taking sin as serious as Jesus did when He was tempted in His garden (Matthew 26:36-46 &Luke 22:39-46). If we truly want to resist being tempted, then we need to try a little harder to not let ourselves be tempted; and when temptation does come our way, we will be a little wiser as to what we need to do to avoid it. Praying is a pretty good idea, because it is what Jesus did, and He kept on doing until His being tempted was removed. I think that if we just tried that, we might actually "stand" a pretty good chance of overcoming some of those wrong choices that we make... "Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand." (Ephesians 6:10-13)