Key Text
“I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between
your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise
his heel.” Genesis 3:15 (WEB)
Lesson
Note: Todays lesson is from the book Nature Quest published
by the Review and Harrold Publishing Association, a book you should have in
your library!
Today’s text is God’s very first promise of a Savior for the
race Adam and Eve had just experienced deception and defeat by Satan, who had
come to them in the form of the serpent. God addressed the statement to that
serpent, but only as it represents Satan. The symbol of a woman represents
people on earth.
NO one can question the superiority of Great Horned Owl over
a snake. As it flies on silent wings, the owl hears so well that even on a dark
it can follow the slightest sound directly to it’s prey. The owl then uses its razor-sharp
claws to capture and kill its victim in one lethal motion. But even a bird as
powerful as an awl can a critical mistake. A man in New England Observed a
Great Horned owl that had captured a black snake. The owl’s claws had not
punctured any the snake's vital organs. The owl could not get to the snake’s
head before the snake's defensive reflex sprang into action. The snake wrapped
itself around the owl so tightly that it left the bird helpless. The two
creatures were locked in a death struggle The owl—not the serpent—would have
died it the man not intervened. He killed the snake and set the owl free. But
the struggle had weakened the owl and it could not fly had rested to regain its
strength.
The struggle between the owl and the snake is very much like
our own struggle with Satan. If we think that we have the power to overcome the
devil's wiles, we are as deceived as were Adam and Eve. We are locked in mortal
combat with sin, facing certain death. But ever though the serpent may have
weakened us, God has said in today's text that He wiII take charge and conquer
the serpent tor us. In fact, He did just that on the cross, thus fulfilling His
promise to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.1
Questions
Do you ever feel like you are completely defeated in life?
What can we do when we feel completely overtaken by life or
by Satan’s power?
Why are will still stuck here in Satan’s domain if Jesus
already overcame him a long time ago?
Sources
1 James A. Tucker, Priscilla Tucker, Nature Quest
(Hagerstown: Review and Harold Publishing Association, 1994).
Questions Written by David F. Garner
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