"When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it.”
— Genesis 3:6 (NIV)
Perfection was shattered with a single decision.
In a garden filled with beauty and abundance, one act of disobedience changed everything.
Adam and Eve’s sin wasn’t about fruit, it was about trust. They believed the serpent’s lie: that God was withholding something good, that they could become like Him. It was the first moment humanity doubted God’s goodness, and that doubt opened the door to corruption.
From that moment, the harmony between heaven and earth was broken.
The ground was cursed, pain entered life, and death became inevitable.
"For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”
— Romans 3:23 (NIV)
This was no myth or metaphor, it was the true moment when sin and death entered history. And we still feel its aftershock in every injustice, every illness, every broken relationship.
The Fall wasn’t just Adam’s story, it’s ours.
Every time we choose pride over humility, self over service, doubt over trust, we repeat that moment in the garden.
Yet even here, grace whispered a promise.
God clothed Adam and Eve with garments of skin, a symbol that an innocent life must one day be given to cover guilt. That innocent one would be Christ.
Paul later called Jesus the “last Adam” because He came to undo what the first Adam did. Where the first man brought death, the second brought life.
"For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.”
— 1 Corinthians 15:22 (NIV)
Corruption entered creation, but redemption was already written into its story.
And that same restoration is happening now, in hearts, in light, in the unseen movement of the Spirit.
When Darren’s light appears, it is not only a sign of presence, it’s a reminder that even in a fallen world, God’s purity shines through. The corruption of sin cannot overcome the creative power of God’s light.
So, though the garden was lost, the promise was born.
The same God who walked with Adam now walks with us through Christ, turning corruption into restoration, and sorrow into song.
Reflect:
Where in your life do you feel the effects of the Fall?
How has God already begun to restore what was broken?
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