I consider my salvation experience to be a spiritual epiphany.  I was only seven years old, and I had heard the gospel on numerous occasions.  I knew there was something I was supposed to do that I hadn't yet because in my church I was not permitted to partake in communion or be baptized until I did something.  I knew there was something expected of me, but I didn't quite understand what it was.  That was until that day I sat in that Children's Evangelism Conference with Uncle Bill.  For some reason that day it was like a light bulb went off and I grasped the fact that although I had not done all that many horrible things in my seven years of living, I was a sinner.  The fact that I was a sinner meant that I needed Christ to redeem me.  I got it.
 
Just the other day, at the end of exercising of all things, I had a spiritual epiphany that I wanted to share with you.  There is a statement I have taught on many occasions.  In the context of teaching Genesis or other times I might say:   I don't know why God didn't just destroy the world after Adam and Eve sinned and just start all over, I know I would have wanted to do that.  Right there as I lay on the ground covered in sweat, resting from my last push-up; it hit me.  God needed to let this whole thing play out even after Adam and Eve sinned.  His plan was to send me and the rest of us into the world through Adam and Eve.  If He had just destroyed them, He would have been destroying me too and He didn't want to do that to them or to me.  He wanted to give me the opportunity He gave them to accept Him or reject Him.  The only difference between us is that they knew perfect relationship with God and a sinless world and I don't. 
 
Now I might expect God to unlock a mystery of His love for me when I am in the midst of Bible study or praying.  He chose to tell me this right in the middle of my daily life.  It may not be that big of a deal to you.  Perhaps you have known all along why God cannot just abandon His plans for the Universe He spoke into being.  For me it was exciting and energizing.  I sensed God's love for this ruined creation in a new way.  I consider that His love for us in spite of the hard things we must face is more than I can imagine.  He can't get rid of the sin without first giving each of us a chance to choose Him.  We really do have a similar plight to Adam and Eve.  Adam and Eve had that tree available to them every day of their life in the garden.  How many days it was that they trusted God and didn't even consider going for its fruit, we don't know.  Each day they passed it by, they were choosing God.  It was only on that awful day that they disobeyed Him that the world in its perfection began to unravel. 
 
God gave Adam and Eve a second chance to choose to trust Him, and He does the same for you and me.  The fact that this world keeps on spinning in spite of all the corruption inside of it is evidence of God's passion to bring us back in to relationship with Him.  I Corinthians 15:21-22 says, "For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man."  For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.  God didn't destroy the world after Adam and Eve sinned because He didn't want to destroy any humans who would choose Him over the Deceiver.  What a wonderful reason to let this world go on in spite of its corruption!