Genesis Three - Doubt Vs. Obedience

"14 The Lord God said to the serpent,

“Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock

and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go,
and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.
15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, 

and between your offspring and her offspring; 
he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”

Genesis 3:14-15

The man had sinned against perfection- had been tempted and fell. Justice was served in the form of spiritual and physical death and undeserved redemption was on it's way. I was listening to a podcast recently called 'Apologia Radio' and there was this interesting explanation of that historic event... "The temptation was "hath God said?" In other words the enemy didn't attack God personally, he didn't even attack man personally. He attacked the commandment. He attacked God's word- "Hath God said?" - and because doubt entered humanity, we fell... The first Adam was in a garden when this temptation went down and the world after the fall became a wilderness. And it's in the wilderness that Christ: the second Adam, takes on the same enemy, takes on the same three temptations and yet the question doesn't come up "Hath God said?" He's(Jesus) telling him "God. Has. Said. It. Is. Written." So Christ settles that argument once and for all and now the wilderness is on its way to going back to the garden. And that's the road we are on gentlemen." As I was listening to this I noticed the magnitude of how powerful the Word of God is, and how it is far greater than I could ever think it to be. Indeed His thoughts are higher and His ways greater. So much greater than what I could have ever thought and the story far more intense than I could/would ever understand it to be.

Then the question to myself should be "do I go along and doubt continually or shall I place faith in obedience"? And that is the crux of it all isn't it.. To be obedient would mean that you were destined to obey from the beginning of creation, and to be doubtful would also be the answer to one's eternal condition. Then what of the one who lacks hope in Him? If one's eternity is on the line how can one ever hope to give up on this. Unless He drives them into the darkness and calls them back no more... Where is there a resting place for the hopeless? Where is the Savior for the lost who is no longer beckoned to His arms?... Yet He is still good. He is still good and He is still just. He still deserves all the glory and honor that one can ever bestow in such a hopeless state. I can only hope this is for a season. May this only be for a season and may He lead me to the still waters.