What happens after you mess up?

No one is perfect. Most people agree with that statement. We all mess up.

I remember when I was a kid and Mom took me to the grocery store with her. She did this out of necessity, because she had no one to watch me when she wanted to buy groceries. At the register they had displays of various things, one of which was a strip of gumballs individually wrapped. I really wanted one of the gumballs, so I just took the one on the end of the string. When we made it back to the house, Mom discovered the gum in my mouth and she knew I had taken it from the store. She marched me back to the store, she bought the string of gumballs and I had to apologize to the manager. That was tough for a six year old.

I messed up, Mom was not happy but this incident did not change her feelings for me.

Imagine a scene where two people mess up, but their mistake was not a minor issue like stealing a gumball. They disobeyed God and it caused a ruptured relationship with God. This was not the end of the story, this mistake caused every person who ever lived to have a broken relationship with God. Our natural reaction after someone makes a huge mistake never have anything to do with that person. What happened in this story? You can read it in Genesis 3.

After these two (Adam and Eve) messed up, God changed the order of things. People would be distant from God, women would have pain in childbirth and men would work hard all the days of their life just to survive. We learn that God must punish disobedience. He cannot just look the other way.

We learn something else when we read verse 21: “The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.”

After the largest offense ever made against God, with the highest consequences, God cared for the Adam and Eve. He provided for them what they needed at that time, clothes.

It breaks my heart that people do not understand how good God is to everyone of us. If you get just a glimpse of how good God is, it will change your life.