January 12: Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other wild animal that the LORD God had made.

Serpents, as we see them in nature, don’t actually seem so crafty! They are pretty scary, and downright dangerous, but they are predictable and they are animals, just doing what they do. It is evil itself, temptation itself, that is “crafty.” If we begin to imagine that we are so much wiser and more immune to temptation than our earliest father and mother, we should probably think again. We need a Savior, and thank God we have one!