Thoughts to Ponder - What Am I Doing?

 
Often we think of sin as only having a negative consequence.

We think of sin resulting is something bad happening to us because we did something we shouldn’t have done.

But did you know there is another side to sin?

Sin also results in the withholding of something good that could have been, the blessing that would have been.

When Adam and Eve sinned they both experienced guilt. And then each of them had a particular sin consequence they had to deal with: for Eve it was painful childbirth, and for Adam it was struggling with weeds and thorns to get the earth to produce.

The obvious is that they no longer enjoyed those walks and talks with God in the cool of the evening. They no longer enjoyed perfect harmony with each other. They no longer enjoyed the beautiful Garden of Eden.

But what did they give up?
What might it have been like to raise children in a perfect setting?
What might it have been like to never have sickness, pain, colds, flu, headaches, etc?
What might have happened if they had been able to ask God how to create, how to design, and how to turn dreams into reality?

Think about it.
Imagine what blessings we might be missing out on becuase of our short sightedness and poor choices?