Ecclesiastes 7:29 “Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.”
God created both Adam and Eve upright or "right in His
eyes". This is the state that God wants His people, He wants us to hear
His voice in the scriptures and obey His command. God did not create Adam and
Eve to sin, but He also did not create them immutable. God made them with the
ability to sin because it was His ordained will that they fall. Before the
foundation of the world God had already elected a remnant of souls to save, God
had already ordained a Saviour for this remnant, and God had already given this
remnant to His Son, all before He even created the world. John 17:6 It was Adam
and Eve that “have sought out many inventions.” Vines defines this, this
way (translated "engines," i.e. devices, ways of going astray and
deviating from original righteousness.” Apparently, Adam and Eve were not
satisfied with what God had given them, because they elected to disobey God by
looking beyond what God had blessed them with. Since this event mankind has
never obeyed God, even Christians saved by God’s grace disobey God and the
reason is we are always looking beyond God “seeking out our own inventions”.
We, as mankind and as God’s blessed children have a hard time understanding
that obeying God’s commandments delivers blessings. For example, if Adam and Eve
had never listened to Satan and sought out their own inventions, they would
still be alive, living in the garden and the world would be heaven on earth.
But they sinned and God did as He promised, they died spiritually, and started
dying physically. Our problem as an offspring of them is we are just like them,
always looking beyond the gifts of God. God promised that if we followed His
commandments His blessing would follow. Listen to His conversation to Moses
about the bitter water, Exodus 15:26 “And said, If thou wilt diligently
hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in
his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I
will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the
Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.” God’s promise, not just to
Moses and Israel, but to us also, just stop seeking inventions and follow God’s
word to the letter and His blessing are ours. But look at History, God blessed
the children of Seth and then this happened, “That the sons of God saw the
daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which
they chose.” Genesis
6:2 The “sons of God” were the descendants of Seth, the daughters of men were
the descendants of Cain. Once they mixed, we see nothing but sin, “And GOD
saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every
imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it
repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his
heart.” Genesis 6:5,6 Sin delivers punishment, even with Christians we are
“chastened, and chastised” by God Himself because of our own inventions. God
said, “But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and
enticed.” James 1:14 and in Galatians 5:16 “This I say then, Walk in the
Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.” Never look beyond
the scripture, never lust, never want more than God gives, and always obey
God’s every commandment and God’s blessings are yours. But our flesh sometimes
is uncontainable. We always want more and that is what gets us into trouble
with the Lord. Adam and Eve wanted more, the sons of God wanted more, the
Israelites wanted more, and we as Christian want more. The Apostle Paul wrote
these words, “Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in
whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.” Philippians 4:11 Paul said
he had to learn, “in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.” He
is saying, whatever God has given me, in life I am now content. He learned not
to push for more, not to seek his own inventions. Always remember these words,
“And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having
all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:” 2
Corinthians 9:8
