Pregnancy Pills and Weed Killer

My Introduction to the Old Testament class is quite interesting. The other day we talked about Genesis 3-the Fall of Man. The Instructor wanted to discuss the part of the curse that says that men will labor and toil in the ground and women will have pain in childbirth. He asked, “Is this prescriptive or descriptive, meaning does God allow this curse and like it, or allow this curse and not like it, respectively?” We answered that is was descriptive. Of course God doesn’t want His children to suffer, but sin entered the world anyway.

So he asked if a woman taking pain relievers for pregnancy or a man using a weed killer is going against God (since He allowed the curse). Immediately I thought that would be legalism! But what I found interesting is the fact that women do take pain relievers during pregnancy and men do use weed killers in their yards. These events happen quite often, actually everyday. And not only these two things, but other things as well; we are trying to recover and restore the earth through environmental laws, we seek and find beautiful things, we exercise so we don’t get fat, we do absolutely anything to be happy and to obtain fulfillment.

 

It just really hit me how these things are acts of trying to return to Eden; trying to “get back to the heart”, if you will. We know we were created for something entirely different than this broken world and we spend every waking moment trying to get back to it. We use pain relievers during pregnancy because we know we weren’t created for it to hurt; we use weed killer because we know we weren’t created to take care of a thistly, weedy land. We are trying to get back to Eden.

~Laurel May ~