~Trees~
Random thought of the day... at church, we were learning about the Trinity, and Pastor Ken was talking about the unity of the Trinity and the perfect love that God experiences within it. Thus, He doesn't need us...He created us to love us.
This took me a while to understand in my Christian walk, but all of this I knew. It was something else Pastor Ken said...
He said "Can you imagine how it must have felt to God when people rejected the plan he was so excited about? To share perfect love with people! But love is a choice, so God put the tree in the middle of the Garden and said, 'You can choose me or the tree'...and they chose the tree."
How silly! Don't you think? Choosing a tree over the best opportunity that humanity has...
Yes, how silly...
How many trees have I chosen instead of God in my life? In the last year? In the last month? In the last week?
How silly...to choose a tree over God.
Dear Lord, Jesus. You who were tempted for 40 days and know how it feels...you know how we don't always see the silliness in our choices. Other times we do...Jesus, show me how to see the trees when they are obscured by poor judgement. Please help me not to choose the tree, whatever form it may take at any given moment. Thank you for your love, Lord. May my choices not cut your heart. All I want is to love like you do...I don't need trees.
In Jesus' name,
Amen
2 Comments:
so I'm taking a theology course at a catholic college.. and the prof thinks/believes that many/all of the stories in the pentateuch are myths and religious tradition.
for example, there probably wasn't a literal garden of eden, and a literal tree of the knowledge of good and evil, it's all just a metaphor of humans falling away from God.
Thoughts?
Noella
Hey Noella!!
So I see you've found my little piece of cyberspace =D Welcome!
As for the Garden of Eden, I do believe that it physically existed. I don't think there's anything scientifically conflicting with it existing...also, a physical tree makes the first choice to sin very black and white (perhaps unlike some of our choices nowadays...those "grey" issues that we have to pray for days about because God doesn't explicitly say "Do this!")
I guess that I believe that mostly everything in the Bible that is only an analogy is stated as such. Take Jesus' parables for example. He always used the words "like" and stuff...i.e., the kingdom of heaven is like...(you fill in the rest).
Yeah, that's my take. Perhaps it is an illustration, but I don't see any glaring evidence why it couldn't have existed, and since the Bible says it did, that's the basket I'll put my eggs in! ^_~
Ciao bella Noella!
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