What is the first thing you think about when you wake up?

Do you think about God?

Do you know that he watches over you?

Psalm 121:5-8 ?The Lord watches over you? the Lord is your shade at your right hand; the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord will keep you from all harm?he will watch
over your life; the Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.?

Do you know that he thinks of you?

Psalm 40:5?Many, O Lord my God, are your wonderful works which you have done; and your thoughts toward us cannot be recounted to you in order; if I would declare and speak of them, they are more
than can be numbered.?

When you picked out that car you wanted did you ever think that it would fall apart and
leave you stranded at work? What if instead of choosing it yourself you asked God and he led you to a good working car that endures?

What if that last boyfriend you had broken up with him when your gut told you too? What if you came to God first and avoided the heart break and found a better man for you?

What if that last job you picked for money that ended up with a horrible boss could have been avoided? What if you came to God first and instead was blessed with a job that has purpose and more than you can ask for?

We paint a picture in our heads for our lives but what if God has a way bigger picture for you than you do for yourself?

The choices we make can affect the way our lives are shaped. Sometimes the way things turn out
is because we ignored when we should have listened and ended up suffering because of it.

Adam and Eve is a good example

Eve was deceived by Satan

Genesis 1: 1-5 ? Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, ?Did God really say, ?You must not eat from any tree in the garden???  The woman said to the serpent, ?We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ?You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.???You will not certainly die,? the serpent said to the woman. ?For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.?

Adam and Eve both chose to disobey God

Genesis 1: 6-8 ?When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to
her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves. Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden.?

Adam and Eve are confronted by God

Genesis:1:9-12 ?But the LORD God called to the man, ?Where are you??  He
answered, ?I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.?  And he said, ?Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat
from??  The man said, ?The woman you put here with me?she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.?

Adam and Eve face Consequences for Disobedience

Genesis 1: 13-19 ?Then the LORD God said to the woman, ?What is this you have done?? The woman said, ?The serpent deceived me, and I ate.?  So the LORD God said to the serpent, ?Because you have done this, ?Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.?To the woman he said, ?I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children.
Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.?  To Adam he said, ?Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ?You must not eat
from it,? ?Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were
taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.?

God banishes Adam and Eve

Genesis 1:20-23 ?Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the
living. The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed
them.  And the LORD God said, ?The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live
forever.? So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.

If Adam and Eve had listened to God and followed him not themselves it could have been a
different outcome. They didn?t have to be banished from the Garden of Eden. If they listened they could have had everything. They made a decision of what they wanted to do and they chose to not follow God. Because of their choice to not listen sin has entered into the world and is the reason we all face so many problems with our sinful natures.

God wants the best for us but until we live our lives with him as priority we will fall short of reaching our potential of what God has for us and intended for our lives.