What Matters To God? (2)
Tuesday April 18, 2017
The choices we make today matter to God. God created women and men in His own image and brought them together in a loving relationship with Himself and with each other. It was God’s plan for all humans to enjoy a meaningful and satisfying life. Earth, God’s created home for humans, was filled with beauty, goodness, and perfection. Even when the rebellious behaviour of humans broke their relationship with Him, God in his endless grace, put a plan in place for restoration of their relationship with Him, through His son Jesus.
Jesus says, “Love the Lord God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence and energy and Love others as well as you love yourself. There is no other commandment that ranks with these.” (Mark 12:30-31 MSG),
God never intended us to know evil let alone experience it done to us or done by us. He knew how evil would impact relationships and so God desired to protect humans from its devastating power. However, in making Adam and Eve in His image, He gave them the freedom to choose whether they would love and obey Him. This is still our choice today.
God set a tree in the middle of the garden where Adam and Eve resided. This tree bore the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. He asked them not to eat from the fruit of the tree and warned them, if they did they would die. Unfortunately, the woman and man disobeyed God’s instructions and ate from the tree. This caused humans to enter a new dimension of knowing and interacting with the power of evil, a power greater than themselves. As they chose to live in self-will rather than God’s love and power, they fell captive to the powerful forces of evil. We will do the same if we follow their ways.
All the people did whatever seemed right in their own eyes ... There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death. (Judges 17:6 NLT, Proverbs 14:12 NIV)
We have a choice today, will we choose to love and trust God’s ways, or choose to do whatever seems right in our own eyes?
Prayer: Heavenly Father, come and live in me, and work in me, so I choose to surrender to your will and follow Your ways. My desire is to fulfill Your purpose for my life. Amen
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