Daily Devotion

 With Pastor Ancel Presnell

“THE FIRST WORD OF HOPE”

Right there in the Garden of Eden, everything went sideways. God had plainly told Adam and Eve the deal: disobey and you will surely die. But sin entered, and that moment of disobedience created an uncrossable hurdle for all mankind. Because of that fateful day, every one of us comes into this world already dying. All the pain, all the suffering—it’s the direct result of the fall of man.

But here is where the story gets good. God was right there with man at the moment of sin’s sentencing, and immediately afterward, He gave the first whisper of hope! He wasn’t done with us. He turned to the serpent and said, “I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”

That single verse, Genesis 3:15, is the first prophecy of Christ! Hope is on the way! God speaks of Christ, the Seed of the woman, who is coming to undo what the serpent had done—to provide an escape from the sentence of death and sin. This prophetic promise, this promise of “God with Us,” begins right there in the dust of the Garden. If you miss this moment, you miss the entire foundation of the Gospel.

Genesis 3:15– “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”