Resisting Temptation

I recently read Genesis 2 and 3. The chapters about Adam and Eve, and they're decision to eat the forbidden fruit from the tree God told them not to eat from. When God found out about this, he confronted them. Adam blamed Eve, and Eve blamed the persuasive serpent. As with all bad choices, consequences were upon them. One of the consequences: increased pains in child birth (thanks Eve, that's great, really).

This story has a few lessons. One: When you do something bad, there will always be a consequence, like being grounded, or having detention, or getting in trouble with your boss at work. Lesson two: Our bad decisions can affect other people, just like Eve's consequence of child birth pain, our consequences can affect our friends and family. Like if someone cheats on a kid's test, both would get in trouble. Or if your talking in class, you and the person you wanted to talk to would probably get yelled at. Even if you and a sibling were fighting, I bet you'd both get yelled at from Mom and Dad. Lesson three: We need to resist temptation! Resisting temptation can be very hard sometimes. Just like with Adam and Eve. They had a huge garden of fruit to eat, but they fell into the devil's temptation and decided to eat the fruit. Satan wants us to doubt God's motives, to think his rules are too unfair. Eve fell for it. Just as with Eve, we find daily temptations. Whether it's teenagers being tempted with drugs, alcohol, sex, gossip, or so many of the other thing teenagers come across at high school; or adults, thinking "Gee it can't hurt to run that red light, no one's watching" or something like that. Satan wants you to believe that doing all these things are good. God tells us that Satan is wrong, all these things are not good for us, and wants us to listen to Him, not Satan. Temptation is difficult because we, as sinners, are faced with it constantly, we feel it inside us all the time. But when we listen to God's word, have faith in him, and decide to make the right decisions, God is happy, and by resisting temptation, we have less consequences and are happier.