by Ronnie Dauber

Created on: February 22, 2010   Last Updated: April 06, 2010

The wisdom in God’s commands is actually a guide or instruction for our lives that many of us don't appreciate until after the fact. His wisdom reveals His truths, and when we study the Bible we can see how incredible His wisdom is through the lives of the people, and how His words had a profound affect on their lives and on everyone's lives in His plan for the big picture.

God is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, and He does not change His ways to please us, but rather expects us to change our ways to please Him. There is divine wisdom behind God’s commands that surpasses man’s narrow understanding because it incorporates the future of all mankind.

God’s Commands are Wisdom Given As a Warning:  The Beginning

When Adam and Eve lived in the Garden of Eden, the existence was pure and holy and there was no fear, no sorrow, no sickness and no lawlessness because there was no sin present. And God said that His work was good and He walked with them in the evenings. He gave Adam one instruction in Genesis 2:16&17, and that was to not eat the fruit from the tree of good and evil because if they did they would die.

This command was a warning to them because He loved them and didn’t want to lose them. He was warning them that if they ate the fruit they would be exposed to the knowledge of both, good and evil, and that once they were exposed to evil which is sin, the devil would control them and he would become their god. They would lose their holiness and their ability to be with God because God is Holy and cannot be where there is sin. And if God couldn’t be with them, the devil would ruin them.

But we learn in Genesis 3:1&4 that Satan slithered in, disguised as a serpent, and deceived Eve into eating the fruit, and she in turn talked Adam into eating it that’s when sin in man was born.  God’s holiness was no longer in them because sin now reigned and they had sold themselves out to the devil. They were exiled from the garden because they were now filled with sin, and God was sorrowful because He loved them. He immediately put His redemption plan into action and promised Eve in Genesis 3:15 that He would send someone to put enmity between her and the serpent – meaning redemption between her (all people) and the devil (who was hiding inside the serpent).  

Sin was in its earliest form and there was still a lot of good in Adam and Eve’s family. God

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