"So the Lord God drove the man out of the Garden of Eden to work the ground he had been made out of." Genesis 3:23
Sin separates, sin alienates, sin complicates, and sin contaminates. These are a few of the ways that Adam's sin destroyed Paradise.
Another consequence of sin that is fairly obvious is that sin devaluates.
Look how far Adam and Eve fell once they sinned. Observe all that they lost! In trying to elevate their status to become "like God", they seriously devaluated their situation.
Once they had unlimited personal access to God. They walked and talked with Him face to face. Now, they had to hide from Him and flee from Him and lie to Him. What a tragic demotion!
Once they had the rule of Eden. God gave them authority to name the animals and the plants and go where they wanted, when they wanted to do what they wanted. He trusted them and gave them freedom to do anything except eat from one tree. They were honored as the crowning achievement of God's creation second in authority only to Him. Now they were banned from the Garden.
Once they had a heart and mind like God's, pure, loving and sinless. Now they were fearful, suspicious, calculating, self-centered, and - well, sinful.
Can we just state the obious? Apart from God we have no worth or value. We are valuable only because He created us and placed His image within us. Our worth is tied into His unbelievable unconditional love toward us!
The sin nature deceives into believing that we can add value to ourselves apart from God. Humanism says that if we just get the right environment and the right education and the right position and the right possessions we will be more valuable.
You have to look no further than the first few Chapters of Genesis to understand the source of our value and how sin devalues you! The more you sin the more separated, alienated, complicated and contaminated your life becomes - the more devalued your life becomes.
There is only one way to add value to your life - declare spiritual bankruptcy and value God above all else!
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