Adam – A Man of Easy Persuasion: Lessons on Leadership, Obedience, and Influence

Adam – A Man of Easy Persuasion: Lessons on Leadership, Obedience, and Influence

by | Jan 13, 2026 | Archives, Men

Adam – A Man of Easy Persuasion So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable…

Adam – A Man of Easy Persuasion

So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, – Genesis 3:6-7

For someone whom we had earlier discussed as firm and resolute in his ways when considering his encounter with God during the partner searching episode, Adam proved to be a man of easy persuasion not many encounters later during his interaction with his wife, Eve, who got him to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil at the center of the garden.

Perhaps, some may be disappointed at Adam, and many still blame him to date, for easily succumbing to the request of his wife. From what we had earlier read, even Eve put up a semblance of resistance in her engagement with the serpent by trying to make it realize why they were not supposed to eat the fruit from that tree. However, immediately she took it for herself and ate, it was a no-brainer that Adam was going to follow suit.

It is pertinent to note that Adam was the one God expressly forbid not to eat from the fruits of both the tree of life as well as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 2:15-16). There was no record of God telling the woman this as she was not around when God was making the garden and putting Adam in charge. This presupposes that Adam should have shown more responsibility in his stewardship of the first warning God communicated to him.

However, perhaps he felt more affinity towards the woman whom he spent more time with than God, or because the woman’s pressure proved too unbearable for him, we may never know. What we do know is that Adam allowed himself to be persuaded into fouling the instruction of God and acting in disobedience. And that proved costly not just for both of them, but for their offspring after them from that time onward.

By not demonstrating leadership in what he was persuaded to do by his partner or responsibility towards a charge God committed to him concerning the trees, Adam painfully failed his first test of obedience and leadership. By benefit of hindsight, he must have later learned that it was not everything his partner pressured him to do that he should do, particularly when such was in direct violation of the command of God. We live life forward, but learn it backward.

Selah!

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Women in the Bible: Eve and the Paradox of Sharing

Women in the Bible: Eve and the Paradox of Sharing

by | Jan 12, 2026 | Archives, Women

Women in the Bible: Eve – A Woman that Shares So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and…

Women in the Bible: Eve – A Woman Who Shares

So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. – Genesis 3:6

Our lesson from Eve today will focus on her sharing quality. She was a giving woman who did not hoard from her husband. How was that good? Please read along.

It takes love to give (John 3:16) and it takes a good heart to share what you could have kept for yourself alone. Eve demonstrated her love for her husband, Adam, by sharing the fruit she ate with him rather than kept it to herself alone.

Hindsight has helped us to know that she really did not do well by eating the fruit in the first place. However, without the benefit of knowing the consequences of her action, one can see the good heart of Eve as she demonstrated her affection for her husband by giving him the fruit to eat.

How is this so? The Bible says she ‘saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise’. These are all positive features that she decided to share with her husband instead of holding back. No matter what we think of her, she meant well by sharing what she thought was good stuff with her husband.

If the whole fruit-eating scenario had turned out well and hadn’t boomeranged on she and her husband’s faces, she would have been commended for her good nature. But because it did not end well, it is easy to castigate and blame her. However. the fact remains that she meant well for her husband by sharing the good, pleasant and desirable fruit with him, rather than kept it for herself alone and be helping herself to it secretly.

Another point is that, knowing that the said fruit would result in enlightenment, as it would make her wise and help her know what was good and what was evil, she wanted this for her husband as well, and that was why she shared it with him, so that they would both be wise and enlightened together. She could have opted to be the enlightened one in the family alone while the husband languished in ignorance. But she did not choose such privilege for herself alone. She wanted it for herself, and she desired it for her husband as well.

For a heart like that, you cannot fault much.

Selah!

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Women in the Bible: Eve and the Cost of Indiscretion

Women in the Bible: Eve and the Cost of Indiscretion

by | Jan 8, 2026 | Archives, Women

Women in the Bible: Eve and the Cost of Indiscretion

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’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; 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.’” Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” – Genesis 3:1-4

After she was presented to Adam, our first acquittance with the woman, Eve, in the Bible was on a particularly sour note. The first lesson we can learn from her is how not to allow indiscretion to rob one of great blessings and privileges as was the case with her, and by extension her family.

Our reference passage introduced the serpent as a cunning creature. The passage also goes on to qualify the degree of the craftiness of the serpent compared to other animals. It was described as “the craftiest of all the creatures the Lord God had made” (Genesis 3:1, TLB).

Unfortunately, Eve did not seem to realize this, or she just wasn’t paying much attention to it. And that proved costly for her; not just her, but her family as well. By not recognizing the slyness of the creature she was dealing with, she fell prey to its wiliness and lost so much as a result.

This underscores the importance of doing due diligence on the character and nature of people we allow into our space. We should not just dismiss warning signs when someone starts to behave in a shady way. The serpent had been profiled as cunning; therefore, we may never know whether Eve was naïve to this and was too trusting as to not heed the warning signs. Or, perhaps, she was trying to be nice and was not courageous enough to cut ties with the sly creature when it approached her for a conversation.

All we can see is that she engaged the serpent and was not on guard enough to recognize the manipulative question it asked her, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’”? (Genesis 3:1). Her falling for this trick question by answering it proved to be her undoing, as she was afterwards coerced with a superior logic into disobeying the command of God.

Indiscretion can be costly.

Selah!

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Men in the Bible: Adam – A Man with A Large Heart

Men in the Bible: Adam – A Man with A Large Heart

by | Dec 19, 2025 | Archives, Men

Men in the Bible: Adam – A Man with A Large Heart And Adam called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living. – Genesis 3:20…

Men in the Bible: Adam – A Man with A Large Heart

And Adam called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living. – Genesis 3:20

After the displeasure and rebuke of God to Adam, his wife and the serpent, an experience that must have been so terrifying for them and left them with regrets and sorrows, the first account we read about the couple was Adam naming his wife. He called her Eve, which means ‘life’ or ‘living’. He named her so because she would be the mother of all living.

This singular act on Adam’s part tells us a lot about his character. He was large-hearted and forgiving. Although he might have been displeased with his wife for landing him in trouble with God in the first place, he did not dwell on that for too long. He accepted his fate and moved on from his mistakes rather than dwelling therein.

Moreso, and quite interestingly, when he was to christen the woman whom some might have labeled his nemesis, he named her in line with her future potential and not according to her past mishaps. He christened her Eve (life, living) because she would become the mother of all life. He did not call her “Error” because she was the downfall of man. This speaks volumes about Adam’s character and maturity as a person.

Someone less mature would have kept blaming the woman for bringing so much misfortune on him at every opportunity. In case it did not occur to you, Adam was the one most hard done by on account of their disobedience, as the verdict God handed him was arguably the harshest of the lot:

 “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’:

“Cursed is the ground for your sake;

In toil you shall eat of it

All the days of your life.

Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you,

And you shall eat the herb of the field.

In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread

Till you return to the ground,

For out of it you were taken;

For dust you are,

And to dust you shall return.”

– Genesis 3:17-19

Imagine someone just hearing himself cursed this way and then dismissed with a matching insult as a man of gutter, as that was what the statement “For dust you are, And to dust you shall return” means.

Imagine hearing such a demeaning statement and then going on to label the person who led him to commit such a monumental mistake with a good name. There was no chivalry greater than that. For this, Adam deserved much respect.

Selah!

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