Wild At Heart Series

So early in the Creation story God gives Adam an opportunity to act on this core desire of his heart and come through for Eve. Let’s finish up with this Genesis chapter 3 verse 4…

4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 6 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. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

Adventure, Beauty, all in the garden is going well until the enemy shows up. Now, there is an opportunity for Adam to come through, for him to step up and rescue his beauty from the temptation that Satan is putting in front of her. He doesn’t say a word. He allows her to eat the fruit. Her was standing right beside her the whole time. The first moment of opportunity in time for the human masculine heart to come through and rescue the beauty and Adam fails. Adam chose Eve over God and we guys have been doing that exact same thing ever since. It’s bigger than that. In refusing to step up, there is another core desire of the masculine heart that Adam turns away from here. See, every man also has a core desire for a

A BATTLE TO FIGHT That core desire is there. Think about it. If someone got into your house tonight and threatened your wife and kids you would do whatever it takes to stop them. You would stop at nothing to protect them. What we often don’t recognize is that every single day we, the ones we love, the people around us are in a different kind of fight. The context of all of our lives is a war, a spiritual battle that rages every single day and our strength is needed. Every single day, we are faced with Adam moments, opportunites of come through, to offer strength, to fight for the hearts of others and so often we miss them.

ILLUST> This past Monday night at about 10 pm I went to bed. I fell asleep pretty quickly watching Sportscenter only to be awakened by a phone call from my daughter who had a 10:30 curfew and should have been on her way home. My heart jumped when her picture came up on my phone. I answered what’s wrong? She was crying trying to tell me something about a tire and a curb. Finally, I was able to make out I think I hit a curb. I’m like what do you mean you think, I’m on my way. So I get up, get dressed, grab my coat go out in the cold, drive there, change the tire, which had a huge hole in the sidewall, in short I do the dad thing…rescue right. Not so much. I may have rescued her car…did anything but rescue her heart. Honestly, I was frustrated and angry. I had been staring at our finances that day, wondering how the new student loans were going to fit and feeling pressure and now this. Are you kidding me? Why couldn’t she have just been more responsible more careful? It had nothing to do with the tire or her. Even though my anger really had nothing to do with the tire or her as she held her phone flashlight for me as I changed the tire I spent about 5 minutes absolutely ripping her a new one. Awesome dad moment. Her young and beautiful heart was the last thing on my mind. I completely blew it as a dad. I chose the wrong battle. So, I called her the next morning to do everything that I could to make it right.