Who Are You Going to Listen To?

DECEMBER 3, 2025

Genesis 2:16

“You are free to eat from any tree, but not the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.”


The saying “with great power comes great responsibility” is familiar to most of us, often this is exemplified in superhero stories where the central question is how the hero will use their special powers. Scripture reveals that humanity is the pinnacle of God’s creation, made for worship and work, and granted unique significance and privileges. No other creature possesses the breath of God’s life or bears His image. In the creation story, God took what can be seen as an extraordinary risk by granting humans the freedom to choose—to trust Him, take Him at His word, and follow Him willingly from the heart. This is because love given freely is love at its highest form. I believe, like superhero tales, God’s story centers on a question: What will humanity do with this extraordinary gift?

Turns out, humankind messed up! Genesis 3 shows the tough truth that humanity chose to doubt God and follow other so-called ‘wiser’ voices, opening ourselves up to the pull and harmful power of evil. Thankfully, God’s story does not end there. Its central theme is His plan to deliver us from the grip of evil, to eliminate its power from the world, to restore all things to a state even better than the beginning, and to grant us another opportunity to live as He intended. All this is made possible through Jesus, the pioneer of God’s new humanity and the evidence of His new creation.

Truth is we are bombarded by so called "wiser" voices too. So, I wonder if the question for us today may just be this:

“Whose voice have  we been listening to in our life?”