GENESIS 3:1
 

[NKJV]

Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?”
 

[BSB]

Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’”
 

From this Bible verse above, understand that though the Serpent had been more crafty or wiser than any living creature of the earth, the Serpent and his craftiness was not worth our attention all those while until the Serpent asked the Woman this question or talked with her on this subject matter. It was the "Persons" and the "Subject-Matter" that brought the Serpent into this limelight of the scriptures.
 

Learn from the Serpent in this Bible verse above: The Class or Kind of Persons and Subject-Matters you deal with defines were you belong. Remember Satan was the Serpent, but it is assumed the Serpent was one of the beasts or animals. Among the animals, the Serpent distinguished himself by not reasoning like animals, but reasoning like the gods (angels or higher spiritual beings) that knew life and death, good and evil, wisdom and mysteries. E.g.
 

*1* Supposing other animals or beasts of the field God made were only thinking about their own food and what they will eat, the Serpent was not thinking about what he will eat but caring about what the woman or human race could and could not eat. Well, these days I have seen dogs trained to feed sheep and cattle as shepherd, and I have seen a clip where a dog snatched snacks from a passing man and ran to give the food to his own master that was a man without legs and without hands: that is, a dog caring for and feeding a man, instead of the man feeding the dog.
 

*2* Supposing other animals or beasts of the field God made were only thinking about their spouses (mates) or sexual partners, the Serpent was not thinking or worried about his female, neither was the Serpent after sex or bestial instincts even when talking to the Woman that was another man's wife.
 

*3* The Serpent was interested in the "Persons" and "Subject-Matter" because God Himself was interested in those things: That is mark of Wisdom or Wiseness — Being interested in whoever or whatever God is interested in. Some people would be interested in gossips, because they are interested in "What a particular man/woman said or did to the woman;" but the Serpent was not interested in gossips, neither was the Serpent interested in the man/husband have said or done to the woman as gossipers or talebearers. Rather the Serpent was interested in what God said to the man and woman. Do you think Satan is interested in gossips of what your neighbor said or did? Satan is only interested what God said to you and what you said, did or will do based on what God said or will do. Someone said, small minds discuss people, while bigger minds discuss ideas: but beyond discussing ideas, the Serpent was wiser than every beast of the field and was discussing what God said to mankind. Fools do not discuss what God is saying or what God said, and they do not know or even care about the Word of God. But Satan or the Serpent is very interested in the Words of God, especially to keep the Word from foolish human beings. When the Sower sowed the Word of God in the minds of men that were like the wayside mindset, the Devil like devouring birds came and took away the Word of God sown in their them. If you know anything else above how much you know the Word of God and what God is saying, you are already a fool; and the Serpent is very much more crafty than you.
 

The serpent talked to the woman because the serpent felt God had talked to the woman, and the serpent was interested in the woman's eating of the trees of the garden because the serpent felt God had instructed the woman about eating of the trees in the garden. The crafty serpent seemed to be interested in the woman, interested in God, and interested in the trees of the garden, but those false interests and false concerns of the crafty serpent were parts of his pretense and charming deception on the woman.
 

Unfortunately, the serpent's talk to her was to woo her mindset away from the Word of God and into doubting or questioning the practicality of what God said regarding all she eats in the garden.
 

There was a serpent in the garden who was a beast that talked to a beauty. The serpent, being more crafty than any other beast of the ground God made, did not have a mindset that only related to low-class creatures and its fellow beasts, but had a mindset that related to the woman's mind. At that time, there was no enmity between the serpent and the woman, instead, there was attractive and friendly communication between the serpent and the woman who loved to wonder after wisdom and craftiness. Wise things attracted her, and she would do anything she could to know more and to be wiser than she was.
 

The craftiness of the serpent, more than any other beast of the ground, revealed that he was a beast himself, and yet he had a mindset and conversation that was beyond the cunning of the natural beasts. Many beasts think of being a beast as motivation to be ferocious, aggressive, stronger, or more fearful, but the cunning serpent trod that path with craftiness above all the beasts.
 

All animals were made by God, but they do not all bear the Image of God in them, and all living creatures are made through the wisdom of God, but they do not all share an equal amount of wisdom and discernment of the wisdom of God.
 

The evidence of how wise the serpent was compared to the rest of those animals then was provable in the secrets and the subjects that mattered to the serpent most when the serpent talked to the woman.
 

Take up this assignment:
 

To retain and keep what God sent or said to you in the midst of wolves in sheep's clothing or in the midst of devouring beasts, you must be wise as a serpent in mind but harmless as a dove in heart.