Cunning

2 Corinthians 11:3 - But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.


Genesis 3:1-4,6 - Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’” “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman…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. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

Application:

· Do I doubt God’s Word? Do I see through deceptively innocent attempts at contradictions of God?
· Do I try to add to God’s Word? Do I try to distort God’s directives?
· Does my slavery to evil cause me to live a life God had not intended?
· Do I consciously rebel against God? Do I fail to carry out my divinely ordained responsibility to guard my helpmate?

All Scripture verses taken from NIV