Post by Woody Williams on Jun 14, 2012 6:51:21 GMT -5
Text for the Day -- Genesis 3:22-24
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Then the Lord God said, ‘See, the man has become like one of us,
knowing good and evil; and now, he might reach out his hand and take
also from the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever’— therefore
the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the
ground from which he was taken. He drove out the man; and at the east
of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim, and a sword flaming and
turning to guard the way to the tree of life.
Devotional
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The breaking in of evil into God's creation occurred through an act
of rebellion and sin against God's command to not eat of the tree of
the knowledge of good and evil. Eve and Adam succumbed to the wiles
of the serpent and ate of it. God then decides that they have to
leave this paradise they were in and live in the world of struggle,
pain and hardship. They could not stay and perhaps eat of the tree of
life that would give them immortality in their broken and separated
condition. When we step out from under the canopy of God's kingdom -
the shade of his tree - we experience a life separated from God that
is desert like and barren.
Prayer
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By your Spirit, Lord, keep me close to the shade of your kingdom.
Amen
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Then the Lord God said, ‘See, the man has become like one of us,
knowing good and evil; and now, he might reach out his hand and take
also from the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever’— therefore
the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the
ground from which he was taken. He drove out the man; and at the east
of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim, and a sword flaming and
turning to guard the way to the tree of life.
Devotional
----------
The breaking in of evil into God's creation occurred through an act
of rebellion and sin against God's command to not eat of the tree of
the knowledge of good and evil. Eve and Adam succumbed to the wiles
of the serpent and ate of it. God then decides that they have to
leave this paradise they were in and live in the world of struggle,
pain and hardship. They could not stay and perhaps eat of the tree of
life that would give them immortality in their broken and separated
condition. When we step out from under the canopy of God's kingdom -
the shade of his tree - we experience a life separated from God that
is desert like and barren.
Prayer
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By your Spirit, Lord, keep me close to the shade of your kingdom.
Amen