Genesis 3:1-6

...She also gave some to her husband, who was with her...

It's easy to look at Eve and think "Boy, she really blew it!"  But time and again I make the same mistakes.  Breaking it down, I see three things - aside from the obvious - that she did wrong.

1) She didn't cling to what she knew about God.  She knew what He had said, but not well enough to know when His words were twisted.  And she didn't hold to His words, believing that they were absolute truth.  I need to remain deep in His Word, so that I can stand firmly against Satan's lies.

2) She turned to her husband about five minutes too late.  It's really sad to read the words "her husband, who was with her".  He was right there!  When Satan made Eve doubt God's word, she should have turned to Adam and asked for help.  Why do we think we have to deal with temptation alone?  Go back to Genesis 2:17-18.  Part of the reason we were created was to help each other resist temptation.  I need to admit my weaknesses to my husband and ask him to call me on it when he sees me stumble.  We're in this together, and we need each other.  If only Adam and Eve had worked together, and called on God to help them resist the temptation.

3) After she sinned, she dragged her husband down with her.  Yes, it was Adam's choice whether or not to follow, but wasn't it bad enough that Eve disobeyed God?  Why did she then offer the temptation to her husband?  And yet we do that - a husband asks his wife to watch porn with him, a wife asks her husband to lie for her, spouses agree to 'embellish' a little on an insurance claim.  We are here to help our husbands follow after God, not to trip them up with our failures.