Day 2 – Genesis 3-5, Matthew 2

God speaks to His people in diverse ways. The way and manner may differ from child to child but He speaks. Our commitment to our relationship with God is mostly tested by how well and how often we heed God’s voice.

In our readings for today Genesis 3-5 and Matthew 2, we see God speaking to people and observe different reactions to God’s word and instructions.

In Genesis 3-5, God instructed Adam and Eve and they listened to the devil’s voice instead. The serpent questioned the authority and veracity of the word of God. 

In Matthew 2, we see how God led the wise men through the star, how they knew of where Christ would be born through the scriptures, how He warned them about not going back to King Herod through dream and how the angel of God appeared to Joseph in a dream. 

Our human nature sometimes gets in the way preventing us from fully yielding to God’s instructions. It is one thing to hear God speak, it is another thing to abide in Him and obey His instructions to the letter without doubting. Without asking “Did God really say”? Like Eve did in Genesis 3. 

Today, reflect on what your response should be to God’s word and instructions. 

Pray: Lord take away every doubt in my heart and help me to hear you correctly.

Today’s reading 

Genesis 3-5 

 Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?”

2 And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; 

3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’ ”

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Matthew 2 

1 Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, [a]wise men from the East came to Jerusalem,

 2 saying, “Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the East and have come to worship Him.”

 3 When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

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