Before Eve ate the fruit, she had a thought: it was “pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom.” And then “she took some and ate it.”1 David, before he sinned with Bathsheba and had her husband killed, had a thought: “The woman was very beautiful.”2 Before Mary birthed Jesus, she had a thought: “I am the servant of the Lord. Let it be to me according to your word.”3 Before Jesus chose to go to the cross, He had a thought: “Father…not my will, but yours, be done.”4
