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In Love, He Commands (Genesis 2.8-17)
How do God's commandments strike you? Do they elicit frustration or faithfulness? gritted teeth or grateful obedience?
The way we hear and feel about God's instruction tells a lot of our perception about Him, our confidence in Him, and our worship of Him.
We want to be free, right? It's in our national DNA. It's American, dangit! :)
Well, God wants free too. Doesn't His Word say as much? "If the Son sets you free you will be free indeed."
Laws don't counter freedom, they ensure it ...at least God's law. Redeemed children, sheep of the Good Shepherd, hear His voice and they follow because they know He only leads to life!
Do you follow? Are you following? Join us today as Genesis reminds us again to "taste and see that the Lord, He is good!"
Today's passage:
8 And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 And out of the ground the Lord God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.10 A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers. 11 The name of the first is the Pishon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12 And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there. 13 The name of the second river is the Gihon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Cush. 14 And the name of the third river is the Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” -Genesis 2.8-17 (esv)
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By South ChurchHow do God's commandments strike you? Do they elicit frustration or faithfulness? gritted teeth or grateful obedience?
The way we hear and feel about God's instruction tells a lot of our perception about Him, our confidence in Him, and our worship of Him.
We want to be free, right? It's in our national DNA. It's American, dangit! :)
Well, God wants free too. Doesn't His Word say as much? "If the Son sets you free you will be free indeed."
Laws don't counter freedom, they ensure it ...at least God's law. Redeemed children, sheep of the Good Shepherd, hear His voice and they follow because they know He only leads to life!
Do you follow? Are you following? Join us today as Genesis reminds us again to "taste and see that the Lord, He is good!"
Today's passage:
8 And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 And out of the ground the Lord God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.10 A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers. 11 The name of the first is the Pishon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12 And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there. 13 The name of the second river is the Gihon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Cush. 14 And the name of the third river is the Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” -Genesis 2.8-17 (esv)