Avoid the Conversation

"Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, 'Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden?'
The woman said to the serpent, 'We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, 'You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.'
'You will not surely die,' the serpent said to the woman. 'For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.'
When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it." Genesis 3: 1-6

Have you ever had a conversation that you wished would have never occurred? You ended up wishing that you go back because your conversation caused you to get involved in something that you had no business with. Well, Eve surely felt the same way.

Eve should have kept her mouth shut and walked away from that serpent. Sounds easy to do, right? Well, that's the thing, its not always that easy. When satan came to her as a serpent he started the conversation in a way that challenged Eve's understanding of the rules given to her by God. She probably felt like she was doing the noble thing in answering the serpent to set the record straight of what God's rules actually were. However, when she became engaged in a conversation with the serpent she got in way over her head.

The best option is to never start the conversation. The enemy attacks our thoughts all the time and we have to refuse the thought instead of starting a mental dialogue that is going to end up causing sin and pain.