21/08/2021
𝐖𝐇𝐘 𝐆𝐎𝐃 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐓𝐑𝐄𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐆𝐎𝐎𝐃 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐋
I have been curious about the purpose of the tree of good and of evil. Many people are still blaming God for the calamity the world is facing right now as a result of the tree of good and evil that God placed in the Garden of Eden.
In some people's opinion, they think God tempted Adam and Eve with the tree which they eventually fall for. You will hear statements like, "If the tree of good and evil wasn’t there, man will still retain his divine nature and won’t be an inventor of all evils we see today."
But that is a wrong conclusion that is governed by lack of understanding of how the triune community operate.
When I refer to the triune community, I mean the God's head community (Father, Jesus and Holy Spirit). They all operate in a community that is governed by LOVE and CHOICE.
The scripture says, "God is Love." When we are calling the GOD anytime any day, we are referring to the surname of the God's family. That means that God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit all exist in the trinity community governed by Love and Choice.
This is their personified nature that they want man to experience on earth. The triune community of God decided to create man in their own likeness to have capacity to Love naturally and to be at liberty to make choices.
Jesus' substitutional work for humanity was predestined already but he fulfilled it by His own LOVE for humanity and it was His CHOICE to lay down Himself for us.
John 10.18 - "No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. 𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐮𝐩 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢n.
This commandment have I received of my Father."
Among all creatures God created, man is the only creature that was given opportunity among all that was created with capacity to make choices.
The animals don’t have access to choice making, the Galaxy don’t make choices, the trees, water bodies and the rest of the things God created simply obey laws that governs them.
Man is the only creature with instinct to understand and analyze things and is given the freedom to make choices like God.
I hope you know that even the Angel don’t also have capacity to make choices. They only obey God’s order. Angels who disobeys are called rebels and they are cast out of heaven.
Since the time Lucifer rebelled and was cast out of heaven with one third of the angels, we have never heard any such thing again.
Ps.115.16 - The heaven of heavens is for GOD, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐮𝐭 𝐮𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡.
WHAT IS MAN THAT YOU ARE MINDFUL OF HIM? Man is the only moral agent that is ALLOWED to make choices in all of God’s creation. He is created to have a governing community like that of God where it is only operated in Love and Choices. You can’t have a community that is governed by LOVE and they citizen won’t make good choices for themselves and for others.
Let me ask, If God had created us without ability to make choices of where to go, food to eat, clothes to wear, jobs to pick up, friends to make, ideas to executive, who to marry, hobbies to like, games to play, colleges to attend, when to wake up, how late to stay up at night, who to admire, who to marry, but no choice on how you express your disappointment and joy and so on. WHAT WILL YOU CALL THAT GOD?
If you work under a boss or organization that doesn't give room to you to express your opinion, HOW will you feel? WHAT will say about such boss/organization?
Man was not created as an AUTOMATIC BEING just like a robotic being without choices but as a FREE AGENT to make choices that must bring glory to God.
Just imagine a world without choice making. I can imagine how boring and rebellious people under it will be.
Have you imagined a marriage where one of the spouses has no choice than to obey 'by force, by force'?😀
Imagine children with parents that do not allow them to express themselves freely. You can imagine what most of those children do turn out to become later. They will 'japa'.😜
What should we say about a country like Nigeria where the leaders take joy in silencing the rights of her citizen just as we see during the .😭
Any master who doesn’t allow his followers to make their choices is a tyrant and an oppressor. God is LOVE and not a tyrant, compassionate and not an oppressor and He is a liberal giver and not a liberty restrictor - far from it!
Adam didn’t have a choice in his creation process but was given absolute choice to his living process, just as our parent brought us into this world without our choice but we are responsible for what we become in life by the choices we make daily.
On a day daily bases, we are also surrounded with a tree of good and evil, life and death are still being presented to us daily, we still have the power to make choices about where we want to spend our eternity, choices on how to fulfill destiny, choices about our spiritual life despite the perverseness around us, choices about happiness in marriage, choices either to be broken by what you are going through or to become tougher through the experiences.
Don't end up like Adam and Eve who were passing the baton of blames to one another because of the choice they made by eating the forbidden fruits.
➕Stop blaming government and start taking responsibility for your life.
➕Stop giving excuses to the corrupted world and start taking responsibility for your spiritual life and growth.
➕Stop blaming your spouse for reasons to divorce and take responsibility for the marriage to work out fine.
➕Stop giving excuses to your background and take your back up from the ground.
➕Stop blaming your economy but take charge of the economy of your mind by right choices.
𝐊𝐄𝐘 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐃: The tree of good and evil is a figurative expression of God's love to mankind. It shows us that God do not tempt us with evil because in Him there is no evil and He does not tempt anyone with evil.
In God's expression of love to us, He gave us the opportunity to make choices in life. Still till date, the word of God still tells us "Thou shall not" but there many are still saying, "It is good to behold and I shall" contrary to the will of God.
Today, Tree of GOOD and of EVIL is still around us daily. The devil still presents its fruits to us daily but we have the choice to either eat from it or walk away from it. The world provides us with alternatives daily which are absolutely against the ultimate blueprint of God for our lives. The First Adam ate from it but the second Adam walked away from it. 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐇𝐎𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐈𝐒 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐒!!!
𝐅𝐀𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐅𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍: Lord, I receive grace to say No to all ungodliness, No to all temptation, No to all destiny wrecking Choices, No to all limiting excuses, No to anything that will force you to push me out of my Eden (presence of God and predetermined destiny). I receive grace to Say No to wrong Choice in Jesus name, amen!
©️ CALEB A. ODU
August, 2021