(* also applies to woman)
When Eve was tempted by the snake…I would have liked to read in the Word…that she laughed at the fool…and said…nope…no forbidden fruit for me…I’ve got all that I want…my man Adam and me…and in fact, God has already given us all that we need…we don’t need anything else…than all that the garden holds…cause one measly tree…as beautiful as it seems…certainly can’t make much more difference and do we truly have more need...than for Him?
So get your snaky body…and slither or march (I think it still had feet then)…out of here…and leave us alone…we’ve got more than enough…and the temptation of Eve…could have been the end of the fall…but oh well…it didn’t go that way…
And it went quite off course…but isn’t that just the way…with just about every story I’ve heard…there are rare happily ever afters on this earth…alas…only in the movies…and the fantasy’s at best….More likely since Eve (and not to forget…also Adam)…didn’t respond as the Lord would have hoped…was He disappointed in him and her…I can only speculate…well…he told them to come out…when they were hidden away…and he covered them up…yes, he covered their shame…but there were curses…were there blessings? That’s not my focus right now…the story is this…no matter how bad we may stumble in our thinking or being deceived…even if we fall down like Adam and Eve…the Lord has provision for those who repent…the Lord has a plan…and He’s the master at that.
So I will not be discouraged…by my childish unmet needs…but I will come before the master…as a child…childlike indeed.
And he meets all my needs…he tells me stories and verses…and gives me rest when I need it…and he tells me to share it…and not necessarily that any will hear it…but the purpose is to be yielded...and willing to do…and announce publicly and privately my beloved….Jesus Christ is Lord of my life…not to be ashamed…not to desire another…because THE MAN OF GOD…who is God himself…is zealous…and yes…even jealous for my devotion to Him. I am hopelessly…no…not as the song from Grease goes…but hopefully…and steadfastly…and joyfully devoted to YOU…my Lord!
Singing now…“But now, there’s no where to hide…when I’ve pushed your love aside…I’d go out of my head…hopelessly devoted to you…(change that)…hopefully devoted to YOU….ohhhhhh…joyfully devoted…steadfastly devoted…hopefully devoted to YOU!!!
But what? There’s more…oh yes…I feel obliged to say…I know the truth…I know the Lord knows what’s best for me…although I must admit…I’ve not always known this…at least if I knew…I did not believe…cause if I look at my past…I can see the warnings and signs…that said…fool don’t you do it…but did I listen…not often enough…and though there was suffering at times…even in my choices not so fine…the Lord has made my life and my messes become so amazingly beautiful…and I’m learning not to say that any of it was a mistake…cause then my joy would be pain…and I have joy in this journey and now I’ll end this refrain.
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