In Genesis, we read about Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden. God had created this beautiful world for them to enjoy. Everything that God created, the Bible tells us was “good”. In that garden, God had given them more than they needed, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food” (Genesis 1:29). There was only one thing in that garden that God told them not to touch, and that was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
God told them in Genesis 2:16-17 “And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” Yet, rather than just obeying God, and enjoying all of the many blessings God HAD given them, they allowed themselves to be tempted and eat of what God had forbidden them to eat of, and thereby they destroyed their lives and were driven from God’s presence.
When God tells us in His Word and by the Holy Spirit to NOT do certain things, He means EXACTLY what He says – DON’T DO THEM! PERIOD! END OF DISCUSSION. However people always seem to focus on what they “can’t” do instead of all of the THOUSANDS of daily blessings God gives us when we DO what He says. When God says No sex outside marriage, He means no sex outside of marriage – period! When God says don’t lie, He means don’t even tell a “little white lie” – period! When God says don’t covet our neighbors possessions or anything else, He means don’t covet – period! When God says don’t fill our minds with the filth and garbage of this world, He means don’t allow that stuff into our lives – period! And, when we choose to do what the Bible tells us is wrong – we end up DESTROYING our lives!
Like Adam and Eve learned the hard way – God is SERIOUS about sin and wrong! The Bible plainly tells us, “For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.” (Galations 6:8). Give in to your flesh and just ignore God and His Word, and IT WILL DESTROY your life – PERIOD!! David wrote in Psalm 5:4, “For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not dwell with you.” God does not delight in evil, sin, wickedness, or whatever you want to call disobedience to His commands, and if you want to know Almighty God and have a daily life-changing relationship with Him, you CANNOT just ignore His Word and do what He has said NOT to do!
SO MANY people miss out on God’s great blessings simply because they choose to do what He has told us NOT to do! When He says “no” about something, He means NO! PERIOD! End of Discussion!