After the sin, Adam and Eva were expelled from the Paradise. Up to that time, they did not know the word “loss“.They only knew to receive the blessings from God. Now, they would begin to reap the results of the sin. How many people are used to divine goodness and end up abusing it? They do not know, or they live as if they did not know, that God is fair and will bring the repayment for the sin.
Adam and Eva lost the marvelous communion that they had with God, lost the access to the fruitful trees of the garden, and principally to the tree of the life. God put in two cherubim and a sword that stopped their return to the paradise. We see God’s action against the man, but we can not forget that the initiative in this process was the actual human being who acted against God.

The way to the Paradise was blockaded. We cannot think that God’s blessings will be at our disposal for an indefinite amount of time or in the hour that we want. We cannot think that the blessings of God will be at our accessibility, for indefinite time or in the hour that we desire. We can not afford to lose the opportunities that the Lord gives us, because tomorrow may be too late. There can be a second chance, but this is not guaranteed. If the recuperation of the blessing is not impossible, certainly it will be very difficult. We cannot negotiate our spiritual rights, because tomorrow may be too late to try to rehabilitate them. It was what happened with Esau. He sold his right of primogeniture and then later had no way to recover it, even though he begged and shed tears (Heb.12.16-17).

Following the Biblical history, in Apocalypse there is talk again about the tree of life and the possibility of our access of it. How many thousands of years have passed and will pass until this day arrives! Another example is the experience of the people of Israel faced with the Promised Land. Therefore, they had lost that chance to take over Canaan and had been condemned to become vacant for the desert during 40 years. Do not lose the opportunity to serve God today. Do not devaluate what God offers today. This is the acceptable time, the day of the salvation (II Cor.6.2).