From the beginning of time, GOD was there; and as the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, He has been TOTALLY INVOLVED IN THE CREATION OF THIS WORLD, MANKIND AND ALL THAT EXIST. God had the worship of the angels in Heaven as He sat, majestically on His throne. They sang His praises, worshipped Him in glory and adoration for His might and awesome power. They were His created beings, committed and commanded to obey His every decree. But what if there was a created being that would worship God not as a compulsory action, but out of love and willingness of heart and mind....and so the Trinity set out to perform their greatest creation of those six days....and He breathed the Breath of Life into the nostrils of man....AND MAN BECAME A LIVING BEING.
Then as Scripture reads, "Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate it and tend it. The Lord God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may freely eat; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not]eat, for on the day that you eat from it you will certainly die.” Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.” And out of the ground the Lord God formed every animal of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to all the livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him." Genesis 2:15-20 NASB
But God realized that Adam, though set to rule in the Garden of Eden, was still without a suitable helper...He was still without someone to whom he could relate....SO; God did the following, " The Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and as he slept; He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. And the Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. Then the man said, “At last this is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; She shall be called ‘Woman’, because she was taken out of man.” For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh." Genesis 2:21-24
And then God knew that all was GOOD. He gave Adam and Eve only one commandment to follow in obedience of their Creator...they were not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Before they broke that commandment by eating the apple offered to them by the serpent, they enjoyed three very special privileges in their RELATIONSHIP with their Heavenly Father.
They were in Communion with God as they walked and talked with Him in the cool of the evenings. They knew God as He is; there minds not clouded or fraught with falsehoods or lies. And lastly, they possessed spiritual life since they were not just physically alive, but in every sense of the word their souls were alive.
AND THEN THEY SINNED; DISOBEYED THE ONE COMMANDMENT THAT FORBID THEM TO EAT OF THE TREE OF GOOD AND EVIL....AND THAT SIN OF COMMISSION SEVERED THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD AS HE SENT THEM FROM THE GARDEN....NEVERMORE TO RETURN UNTIL THAT RELATIONSHIP COULD BE
REPAIRED AND REDEEMED...OUR TWO "R's" for tomorrow!!! SEE YOU THEN!
Holding
onto my Relationship with my Heavenly Father,
WPQ
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