Captivating Ch 3

Captivating Chapter 3 Study

Haunted by a Question

Much too soon into our first parent's lives, Adam and Eve fell. They chose to disobey God and to distrust His heart.

Why did Eve take and eat the forbidden fruit, really?

Look up Genesis 3:10. Write it below.

Why was Adam afraid? What did it cause him to do?

If we understand Genesis 3:10, we understand the human condition. Every person breathing is to some extent afraid and hiding. For women, this deep distrust of God plays out in our lives in various ways. Depending upon the story of her life, each woman tends to express her “fallanness” on a spectrum varying between being extremely controlling or extremely desolate. We are in this together. We need to look at our fallenness in order to find the redemption available to us in Christ and become the women we are intended to be. There is mercy for us.

Which way did your mother or women who influenced you most while you were growing tend to fall? Give some examples?

Which way do you tend to go? Controlling and driven or desolate and needy?

How does that play out in your life?

The core desires that God placed in our hearts as women go largely unmet on this side of Eden. We ache. God longs for us to bring our aching hearts to him so that he can speak to and touch our deep hearts. Where do you take the ache in your heart when you don't take it to God?

Underneath our sin is a deep fear. What are you most afraid of?

Read Hebrews 4:14-16 God knows why we do the things we do. He understands us. Look to him now with your confession. There is mercy in his eyes. He would like not only to forgive us our fallen ways, but heal our fear, and reveal his love to us in the depths of our soul where we have yet to trust him.

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