Two Trees

There are two trees found in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 2:8-9); The tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. One had a snake in it.

Satan’s Plan (from Life Application Study Bible) adds up to deception
Doubt: Makes you question God and His goodness.
Discouragement: Makes you look at your problems rather than at God.
Diversion: Makes the wrong things seem attractive so you will want them more than the right things.
Defeat: Makes you feel like a failure so that you don’t even try.
Delay: Makes you put off something so that it never gets done.

Living for God (All In)
We see His goodness to us and others up close and personal.
Being close to our Father gives us peace as we depend on Him through life’s trials.
The light of His truth will illuminate things so you can see things for what they are.
God is our purpose; we have the distinction of being made in His image, live well in His name.
Hunger and thirst for His righteousness.

The bible doesn’t say why God respected Abel’s offering and not Cain’s. I am going to speculate and say Able lived in the presence of God and knew God and God knew him. Able knew what would please God and Cain did not. Gen 4:5b Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell. A life lived for God quickens the Spirit and enlivens the soul. Gen 4:7 “If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should rule over it.”

In which tree do you make your house?