May
12 2026 A Perfect World
The
human race was created, placed in a perfect world, supplied with
everything for their happiness, including the possibility of free
choice. This perfect world was known as the garden of Eden. God, in
his infinite wisdom, placed before man the choice between life,
existence with him, and death, existence without him. Existence apart
from God produces exactly what it can only produce--death. God is
life. Any step away from God is death. Yet man, unwilling to trust
God for their happiness, reached out in exercise of free will and
chose death. Eve willingly disobeyed God in order to satisfy her own
desire for knowledge and wisdom apart from God. Now, after thousands
of years of rebellion against God, we find ourselves living in a
corrupted world, awash in death, decay, weakness, disease, ignorance,
poverty and hate. God warned Adam and Eve, and he continues to warn
us of the consequences of disobedience. Yet we behave like we are
going to be the first to get away with rebellion and not die. We have
gone mad, truly insane! This is where the exercise of our free will
apart from God has taken us. Why do we continue to choose not to
trust or believe God's word? Do we think we are stronger than he?
God saw free will as good, so it must be good. We don't have any other God, or any other world to choose from. Can you even comprehend existence apart from the ability to think and choose? When Eve listened to satan, God suffered the hurt of a wounded heart, because he knew she would die. But since God is perfect, he already had a solution for the problem of death. He had already provided in the plan of creation for our possible disobedience. Now, what does that tell us? What it should tell you, and what you must come to realize, is that God is bigger, stronger, wiser, and tougher than any sin or problem mankind could ever face, even death. God's ideal for us was shattered by our walking away from him, but his plan was never changed. His plan remained, and still is the same--he and us living in a perfect world together forever. -- excerpt from my book Kingdom Chronicles
God saw free will as good, so it must be good. We don't have any other God, or any other world to choose from. Can you even comprehend existence apart from the ability to think and choose? When Eve listened to satan, God suffered the hurt of a wounded heart, because he knew she would die. But since God is perfect, he already had a solution for the problem of death. He had already provided in the plan of creation for our possible disobedience. Now, what does that tell us? What it should tell you, and what you must come to realize, is that God is bigger, stronger, wiser, and tougher than any sin or problem mankind could ever face, even death. God's ideal for us was shattered by our walking away from him, but his plan was never changed. His plan remained, and still is the same--he and us living in a perfect world together forever. -- excerpt from my book Kingdom Chronicles
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