Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Learning While Homeschooling

1:30 PM by Christi Bowman

I was reading Genesis 3 with my 7 year old this morning. We arrived at verse 22:

And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever."

Before the Holy Spirit guided my interpretation of scripture, I was bewildered by this verse. Although I guess I knew better, in all honesty it did seem to me that satan was right, and that God was more preoccupied with his creation becoming like Him than anything else. It looked like God took away the possibility of eternal life because He didn't want anyone else, who was like Him, living forever. But today I was reminded of all the other verses in the New Testament, that do show us that God wants eternal life for us. I was especially reminded of John 6:53.

Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

The very essence of God was in the fruit of the tree of life. Perhaps another manifestation of Jesus. God knew man was in no shape to eat of that tree and live forever. It was God's mercy on us that guarded that tree. We deserved to eat of that tree right then; "living," yet dead, apart from God in our brokenness forever. But God had other plans. John 6:40 says:

For my Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life.

To eat of His flesh, whether it be the flesh of fruit, or flesh in the form of bread we must believe in Him. Genesis 3:24 says that God put cherubim and a flaming sword to GUARD the way to the tree of life.

He guarded The Way until The Way was ready to put skin on.

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