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Day 1:

Pull out your crayons or colored pencils. Use your imagination and draw a picture of the Garden of Eden. Take time to be creative. Try to put yourself in the mind of the Creator God.

 

In the middle of the garden, draw 2 trees.

  • Label one “tree of life” and label the other “tree of knowledge of good and evil.”
  • Somewhere on your picture, write out God’s command in Genesis 2:16-17.
  • With the color red, underline a word or phrase in the command that represents God’s love.
  • In a black color, underline a word or phrase that represents God’s justice.

 

Day 2:

Read Genesis 3:1-13. Who did Adam blame? Who did Eve blame? Who do you blame?

 

Take some time to journal about why it is difficult to take responsibility for when we do wrong (sin)?

  • What are you afraid of?
  • Take some time right now to pray and ask God to show you areas of your life where you need to stop blaming other people and take responsibility for your own actions.
  • Confess this to God and if you are brave enough, tell your accountability partner.

 

Day 3:

Find something in your house or outside your house that is broken. Sit in front of it as you complete this question.

 

Adam and Eve have sinned. The relationship with God has now been broken.

  • Take some time to think and meditate on the word BROKEN.
  • List 10-15 words or phrases that come to your mind when you think of the word broken.

 

Day 4:

So, God seemed to have 2 options because of Adam and Eve’s sin…

  1. Pretend like they never sinned and go back on His initial consequence (see day 1)
  2. Give up on Adam and Eve and forget the whole “human” idea

 

Write a response to each option.

  • What would it say about God if He had gone with option 1?
  • What about if He had gone with option 2?

 

Day 5:

As we learned in dgroup, God had a solution in place. Atonement. Atonement is a system whereby man can be brought back to God. To make something right, would be another way to say it.

 

Take some time right now to make something right in your life – maybe a room that needs to be cleaned, a relationship that needs to be worked on, something that needs to be fixed.

 

After you “make it right”, take some time to write about how you felt when you completed the task.

 

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