Why the other Tree and why the temptation in the Garden? I think the picture that we are presented with in the garden of Sabbath abundance, and of the 2 trees and the temptation, presents us inevitably with the full scope of our design! We are not robots who are to simply respond to our Maker in remote control fashion. To give ultimate context to the setting of paradise beauty, we were presented with the opportunity to consciously and spontaneously fellowship with our invisible Maker and to explore the dynamics of our own being there; and from that place of knowing that we are known we would reflect what we discover in fellowship union and intimacy in Elohim and in one another! We were designed to explore the limitless dimensions of our being as referenced in our Source. The temptation was to follow the suggestion of an alternative idea that maybe we are not perfect by design; maybe, we thought, even Elohim know that we are not really what they had in mind, and would therefore feel threatened by our knowledge of good and evil; maybe that is why they didn’t want us to eat of the fruit of the “other” tree, we reasoned! The alternative tree gives us the opportunity to engage an alternative system, whereby we have to now prove to ourselves, and to one another, as well as to our own ideas of deity (religion) that we can manage and possibly master our own being and destiny, independent of our Source! The quest to prove my I am-ness would now become my constant drive; instead of finding and celebrating me in fellowship with my Maker and my fellow human being, and also in my harmonious co-existence with paradise nature, I have to now strive for it in the fruit of my own efforts to become something I already am by design, perfect and esteemed. And so we have exchanged God’s perfect approval of us, based on his perfect knowledge of us, for our imperfect knowledge of ourselves and of one another, proved by the inevitable evidence in our disappointment with ourselves and with one another. The “I am not-tree-system” would continually be re-enforced by feelings of shame, guilt, inferiority and competing, which sadly brings with it every shade of hostility and frustration and the corruption that our history and societies have borne such horrid witness to. The law expresses and confirms the existence of these systems and their dominance in societies and philosophies for many centuries. The love of God, the Engineer of our being, demonstrated in the unveiling of our inclusion in the death of Jesus, and our joint decent into hell, and our co-quickening and co-resurrection with Jesus Christ, reveals that we are rescued from the lies that we have believed about ourselves, about our Maker and about one another! We are presented with a brand new beginning! The old things have passed away! Behold, everything has become new! Now immediately engage your thoughts with the reality of your co-seatedness in Christ in the highest dominion of life, and discover their the bliss of your redeemed innocence and your eternal oneness!
Posted on: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 08:02:46 +0000
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