He made it for us to live out to His Glory.  God breathed life into dirt and called him man.  A simple thing yet more complex than all the science, known or unknown, in the universe.  And in this man God imparted spirit and likeness, goodness, kindness, mercy and love.  Making man a custodian of creation, having grand responsibility for growth, life and charm.  God, loving this man so much, custom designed a helper from one of the man’s ribs, someone who was part of him yet had the power to rescue him from his simplicity.  Ever wonder how someone in paradise, perfectly paired, carrying on direct conversations with God could be susceptible to discontent?

Our dependence cannot be upon self or we open ourselves up the same “Garden” susceptibility.  Our free will is a gift that does not shield us from the opportunity to make disastrous choices.  We may either exercise that gift in pursuit of God and all that is holy or we may choose the things of self and man’s manufactured reality.  God permits this out of a love I still cannot fathom.  What is more He tells us in advance exactly the cost of such decision.

I do not wish to leave the Garden, I would be happy tending creation.  I do not wish to be God or rise above my perceived “station”.  Happiness in my simplicity.  That is not to say that I do not see the machinations within my own spirit yearning to express their independence.  I just choose to find shelter in God and be protected from those disastrous choices that men call “freedom”.  There is no freedom away from God only slavery to thought, lust and hunger for more.

I am happy serving God.  To many this also appears a depth to far to measure.  My freedom is perfectly exercised within the shelter of God’s sovereignty and dominion.  This is a statement that rocks reality, for they perceive surrender to God as loss of personal liberty.  The opposite is truth.  God withholds no good thing from those who walk with Him in righteousness.  It is easy to make good choices when all choices lead to goodness and righteous deed.

We have been framed by this world and its false sense of emancipation.  My lust for more will never fulfill my spirit.  Thankfully, God has provided a door, a single door, set in place to provide transliteration to a new dimension free from the mistakes and temptations which man entered by leaving God’s protection.  This door, this path, this shepherd is in the person of the Lord, Jesus Christ, who gave His life to buy back our vended future.  Again, this is the day and what lay before us another free will choice.  He lays before us this choice, out of complete love, allowing us to decide between freedom and life under the shelter of Almighty God or slavery and suffering under the fool’s gold of humanity and darkness.  Choose well, choose life and freedom.  Choose Jesus Christ the King.  Amen.