When I am out of Synch

Nothing is more evident about how I can get out of synch than the story of the Adam, Eve and the serpent. In Genesis 3:1-18, are several things in which the deceiver does to Eve and in fact that he also does to me and all other humans. First he deceives me with pleasure, of the taste of the apple, and with power, that the apple from the Tree gave the Knowledge of Good and Evil and, so Adam and Eve thought, knowledge of everything. That is in fact how he deceives me that I will be and know everything to the entire universe. But what this should show me is that while I may know, I cannot always act on that knowledge and do as I want. The knowledge has to be tempered with wisdom. Which is the second thing I am deceived in. Satan convinces me that because I know things I am wise in all things. And this simply is not so. Not if I truly compare myself to God’s wisdom and power. I don’t realize God’s strength, until I am in the midst of storms and turmoils and cannot get myself out. I don’t realize His wisdom until I admit I am a fool, as it says in I Corinthians 4:10, and become one for His sake. God has the power to through me out of paradise, give satan the boot, and lock the gate at the same time teaching me how I can get the key to open the gate at some later date. He renders me the ultimate tough love, and shows me how to grow in Him that I not do what I have done repetitively. He also brings me to a point where I have to make a decision to follow Him or know I am doing what displeases Him and do it anyway. God demonstrates what it is to be a good parent. And He puts me back in synch.