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I wonder if this is why
15 Then the Lord
God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. 16
And the Lord God commanded the
man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 17
but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in
the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”[1]
We have a cat; actually it would be far more accurate to say
we have five pets of the feline persuasion. However only one is allowed out of
the house and his name is Nissan. The other day Nissan caught a baby rabbit.
Why rabbits are living in this part of town is beyond me, but nonetheless they
do and he caught one. I had never heard a rabbit make any noise at all, but
this baby was making the most heartbreaking of squeaking noises. It was because
of this noise that my six-year-old sister found out was going on and began to
cry very hard. So we brought Nissan in and kept him away from the bunny until
it, hopefully, made it back home. I love my sister a lot and I’m not in denial
about life and the heartbreaking realities of the world. My sister is only six
though, and I want to protect her as long as possible from this fallen world. I
know I will not be able to protect her forever, and I don’t want to because
that can do great damage. Yet it is not now, that time will come, but she
doesn’t have to deal with it right now. I have to wonder if this was the same
kind of emotion that God went through when He created Adam and Eve and put them
in the garden with the tree of Life and the tree of the Knowledge of Good and
Evil. God knew from the get go what we were going to do, how we would turn our
backs on Him do our own thing and learn what sin is. However God wanted to
protect us from it all. He knew evil and sorrow he had to cast down the
greatest of His angels and watch many others fall from the grace of Heaven with
satan.
Could it be
that God wanted to protect us from such pain and yes even the tragedy of death?
Could it be that God wanted to protect us as long as He could before we took
that fatal bite from the tree? I think we often forget that God is not watching
us with staff in hand ready to beet us over the head if we stray. He is our
“Abba Father” (which means Daddy) as well, and just like a loving father He
desires us to have peace and be shielded from the realities of evil. Yet we
have rejected that protection and gone our own ways. Why is it then we blame
God for the bad that happens to us? Even now as Followers of Christ we have the
opertunity to rest in God’s protection, to be saved from the worries of this
life and merely be at peace wrapped in His loving arms. This is one of the
things that Jesus was talking about when He said:
24 No
man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other;
or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and
mammon.
25 Therefore
I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye
shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more
than meat, and the body than raiment?
26 Behold the fowls
of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet
your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? 27 Which of you by taking thought
can add one cubit unto his stature?
28 And why take ye
thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil
not, neither do they spin: 29
And yet I say unto you, That
even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the
grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall
he not much more clothe 31 Therefore take no thought, saying,
What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be
clothed? 32 (For after all these things do the
Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these
things. 33 But seek ye first the kingdom of
God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. 34 Take therefore no thought for the
morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient
unto the day is the evil thereof. you, O ye of little faith?
[2]
Therefore I’m going to start living in the “Peace that
Passes all understanding” and letting God protect me from the evils of this
world. My heart is His so my mind and soul are also His. He has given up so
much in order to protect me, why should I slap Him in the face by rejecting
that protection and Love? My sister will one day have to learn about the evils
of this world, but I’m going to keep her innocent until then.
6 Be anxious for nothing, but in
everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests
be made known to God; 7 and the peace of God, which surpasses
all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
[3]
[1]The
New King James Version. 1996, c1982 (Ge 2:15).
[2]The
Holy Bible : King James Version. 1995 (Mt 6:24-34). Oak Harbor, WA: Logos
Research Systems, Inc.
[3]The New King James Version. 1996, c1982 (Php 4:6).
Nashville: Thomas Nelson.
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