Let’s try and summarize.

The tree of the knowledge of good and evil is a very good gift from God. It’s the gift of freedom and choice to His children.

God is love. He is a lover. He loves you. He wants you to love Him but He gives you the choice. He lets you choose. He will keep on loving you regardless of how you choose. Isn’t that what love is all about? For there to be love, true love, there must also be situations and circumstances where love must soldier on against all odds, against rejection. Love never fails but it must be given the opportunity to.

God warned his children about eating from the tree because He loved them and knew they would be severely damaged if they ate. He also knew that when they did eat He would take it upon Himself to comfort, mend, and heal His broken children. He would give His life to give them back theirs.

The tree offers us the option to choose God or MAKE UP an alternative. There is actually, in reality, no alternative to God – He is all there is. There is no other place to go. There is no separation. There is only the alternative to turn and hide ourselves in an illusion of our own making within our own minds.

I’m reminded of how my children when they were small would play this silly hiding game. You’ve probably seen it. While standing in plain sight of everyone they would cover up their eyes and thinking they were invisible would ask us to search for them. We all do this – cover up our eyes and live in the darkness of our own minds.

Are you getting the picture?

 

 

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