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Forever, O Lord, Your Word is settled in heaven.
\nYour faithfulness continues throughout all generations;<\/span>
\n You established the earth, and it stands.<\/span><\/p>\n

Psalms 119:89-90<\/span><\/p>\n

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Growing up in a small town, nothing is ever hidden for long. \u00a0People love to talk. \u00a0They often do not realize their words can hurt and cause irreparable damage to others. \u00a0No one knew (other\u00a0than\u00a0one or two) my secret. \u00a0But I felt I needed to tell my brother and\u00a0sister-in-law when I found out they were letting their daughter spend the night at my parent’s home and her\u00a0sleep in the bed with my dad. \u00a0Little did I know\u00a0when I did share with them that my sister-in-law would go around telling everyone in the town I had lived in. \u00a0I was trying to protect my niece…not hurt mom and dad. \u00a0Mom asked me about it, and I told her I told my brother to protect my niece; and she was angry.<\/p>\n

Was I wrong? \u00a0I don’t think so. \u00a0It did, however, change a few things. \u00a0Dad did say he was sorry for what he had done to me, but said he would never have hurt my niece. \u00a0How was I to trust that? \u00a0I pray he never\u00a0did. \u00a0 The secret was out and I did not have to hide that any longer. \u00a0What did hurt though was the words my sister-in-law spread. \u00a0My brother and she are no longer married due to some other things, but I believe God is just and merciful in all situations, because He said we are not to exact revenge on others.<\/p>\n

Genesis chapter 1 tells us how God created everything with His spoken Word. \u00a0He spoke and it was.<\/strong><\/em> \u00a0And in just six days. \u00a0Genesis 2 tells us God rested on the seventh day. After He rested He created man, Adam, in His own image. \u00a0Can you imagine how lovely Adam was? \u00a0Perfect in every way. \u00a0Then God gave Adam charge over the Garden of Eden. \u00a0From the beginning of time God has given us work to do. \u00a0And He also gave us rules.<\/p>\n

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But the LORD<\/span> God warned him,
\n\u201cYou may freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden
\n\u2014 except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
\nIf you eat its fruit, you are sure to die.
\nGenesis 2:17<\/div>\n
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Adam did not have a problem obeying. \u00a0God then created Eve, from Adam’s rib, to be a helpmate in the perfect world God created and placed them in. God fellowshipped with Adam and Eve…walking with them and talking with them everyday. \u00a0Then a serpent entered the scene. \u00a0He thought he would tempt the woman with the fruit growing on the tree in the middle of the garden—the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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He was very sly. \u00a0He told Eve she would not die and made her look at the fruit and observe how appetizing it looked. \u00a0He also told her she would have knowledge just like God of good and evil. \u00a0We do not know what truly enticed her to eat, but the serpent caused her to look at the fruit and want it. \u00a0Then she shared with Adam after he observed that she did not die.<\/div>\n
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God gave them consequences for disobeying. \u00a0He knew they would but He was disappointed all the same. \u00a0Their disobedience (as well as our own sin) has separated us from God.<\/div>\n
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Father,\u00a0we thank You for telling us You love us. Thank You for grafting us into Your Kingdom when we accepted Your Son, Jesus, in\u00a0our hearts. \u00a0Send Your Holy\u00a0Spirit to show us when we stray and go off course. \u00a0Let us seek Your Word, grow Your Word in our hearts and be able to share Your love and grace with everyone…even family. \u00a0In Jesus’ name, Amen.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Forever, O Lord, Your Word is settled in heaven. Your faithfulness continues throughout all generations; You established the earth, and it stands. Psalms 119:89-90 \u00a0*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 *\u00a0 Growing up in a small town, nothing is ever hidden for long. \u00a0People love to talk. \u00a0They often do not realize their words can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":13840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3020],"tags":[3367,1287,425,9475,3174,1071],"class_list":["post-27987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-devotions","tag-daily-devotions-2","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-psalms-11989-90","tag-seeking-him-devotional","tag-tina-marin","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SeekingHimLogo.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-7hp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27987"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28005,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27987\/revisions\/28005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}