A Great Mystery: Fourteen Wedding … – Google Books.

I was reading on page 55 and something Peter wrote hit me.

In Genes 3, Adam faced a choice. No I mean after he had already decided to use his wife as an experiment to see if the fruit would kill her. When confronted by God Adam faced a choice.

Would Adam intercede for his wife or would he blame her?

He blamed her. Not surprising. If he was willing to throw the woman in the path of the serpent, he wasn’t going to suddenly act like a man in God’s presence.

So what does that teach us?

Eve had really done wrong. Adam couldn’t exactly be accused of lying about Eve when he blamed her. On the other hand, he had been there with her and had kept silent to see what would happen. He let her go first and then he ate. He was more to blame than she was.

But even if he wasn’t, would it really have been right for him to point at her before God?

We”re supposed to intercede for our wives. We’re supposed to protect them from accusations as best we can. Yes sin should be dealt with, but in most situations, sin in others is an opportunity for exploitation, not justice and certainly not mercy. Husbands should protect their wives from that.

And also from the accuser in her head. Is a husband’s job to point out a wife’s faults or to build her up?

Did it ever occur to you that when Solomon wrote, “House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD,” that he was trying to get you to be thankful for the wife you have?

The heart of her husband trusts in her,
and he will have no lack of gain.

Adam didn’t trust Eve, and he ended up with a great deal of lack. Regard your wife as faithful, before others and before your own heart. You are called to be her Advocate, not her Satan–her Prosecuter.

Humanly speaking, it is complete coincidence that this is scheduled to publish the same day as this.