"Giving Him the Glory"

 "If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him." (John 13:32 KJV)

  "But it was the LORD'S good plan to crush him and cause him grief. Yet when his life is made an offering for sin, he will have many descendants. He will enjoy a long life, and the LORD'S good plan will prosper in his hands. When he sees all that is accomplished by his anguish, he will be satisfied. And because of his experience, my righteous servant will make it possible for many to be counted righteous, for he will bear all their sins. I will give him the honors of a victorious soldier, because he exposed himself to death. He was counted among the rebels. He bore the sins of many and interceded for rebels." (Isaiah 53:10-12 NLT)

 Because Jesus paid the price, a price that we could have never paid on our own, we are made free from the bondage of sin and death; the death that was established at the fall, when Adam chose to disobey the command: "Do not eat of the tree in the midst of the garden." That might have not been the one and only command, depending upon what we might consider a command to be. 

 Adam was placed in the garden to oversee and be in charge of all life, both plants and animals. So, if that was meant to be a command, as one in the military might experience: placed as the Commander of a ship or a base, they are assigned to a specific duty by someone that is either a General or Admiral, which therefore makes the task, a command, from a higher-ranking officer. 

 Basically, Adam was to watch over the garden, which, is the primary role that he was given! In other words, that was his duty and obligation that God had intended for him: "The LORD God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it," (Genesis 2:15 NLT) Secondarily, God made Adam a helper, if you will, to be his wife; made from his own body, and therefore, made to be under him; which therefore made her part of his original task, "to tend and watch over." 

What I am really trying to say, is that the original command for Adam was to tend and watch over all that God had placed him in the garden to do; the forbidden tree really wasn't a command, but was a warning, as in: "But the LORD God warned him, "You may freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden - except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat of its fruit you are sure to die." (Genesis 2:16 NLT)

 Hopefully that shines a little bit of light on the situation, because man's desires to rule the roost, so to speak, started when man was given the responsibility to rule! In that case, the woman became the lesser of two, which should have been one, as originally established. Forgive me if I step too far out of line, but Adam typically allowed for his wife to be deceived, to test the warning that he was given; to see if she would surely die. 

 O, my, I went and said it, so go ahead and hate me! But it is the man's responsibility to tend and watch over his house; this is the task that we accepted when we joined together as husband and wife, to be the head over the wife; while at the same time, having Christ over us: giving Him the glory, as we serve Him and not ourselves...

"Keep me safe, O God, for I have come to you for refuge. I said to the LORD, "You are my Master! Every good thing I have comes from you."" (Psalm 16:1-2 NLT)