I know God doesn’t have any favourites, but there are times
when I certainly feel like one of His because my life has been so idyllic, especially over
the past three months. We have been visiting the family in Australia for 40
sleeps with one family near Perth and then 40 sleeps on the Sunshine Coast with
our middle daughter and her family who have emigrated this last year (see previous
blog). Fancy three months holiday! Well, not being happy to sit around while my
hard working families were running around and giving us quality time as well,
my precious daughters allowed me to do laundry duties and I loved it, an
opportunity to pray, worship and listen to teachings.
But all the time the verse of the Bible that I was
meditating on more than any other was Genesis
3:16 ‘He told the woman, I’ll multiply your pains in childbirth; you’ll
give birth to your babies in pain. You’ll want
to please your husband but he will lord it over you.’ This was the curse
that came on all people after Adam and Eve had chosen to disobey the only rule God
had given them. ‘You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil and blessing and calamity you shall not
eat,…. ’ Genesis 2:16,17. They lived
in perfect harmony with Him in the Garden of Eden but doubted His Love. Then again from the NET Bible ‘To the woman He said ….. You will want to control your husband, but he
will dominate you.’ And from the Amplified Bible ‘…….. With spasms of distress
you will bring forth children. Yet your desire
and craving will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.’
