WILL YOU TRUST HIM?

 

Before they sinned, Adam and Eve had no idea how utterly disastrous it would be to die spiritually, cut off from the fellowship and holy awareness that they once possessed in relationship with their Creator and Father. Nor could they comprehend the horror of one day being cut off from each other, as well as their children and grandchildren by their physical deaths. They never could imagine the implications of eternal death, separated from God for all eternity. Although all three aspects of their death sentence was imposed upon them the instant they sinned. The one most evident to them, was the fact that they no longer felt the closeness that they once had with the Father. Something irreparable had happened to their rapport with God. That something was spiritual death. They both immediately felt an alienation from God. Adam and Eve went so far as to hide themselves from God, because of the shame from the sin that separated them in their once perfect relationship with their Creator. While God has been working since that time to redeem the world that He created from the grip of sin, at that point sin and death had entered the human race through one mans’ disobedience according to Romans 5:12.

 

There is no way to even begin to understand how that event in the Garden affected all mankind, as well as the world that they were place in to tend. Apart from all the disastrous consequences of man’s disobedience to God, perhaps the worst would be that God withdrew His Spirit from man and man was left with a dead spirit. And while man can live his life as he chooses, he will always have a hole in his heart that is constantly searching and reaching out to the God that created Him, for restoration. Until the day that man surrenders his life back to God, he will always have that spiritual vacuum. This is really the whole story of the Bible summed up. Man’s need for God. While God is sending out daily messages to mankind to be restored and return to Him, He gives them the freedom and will not push Himself on anyone. The only barrier that stands between God and man today is a universal one. That barrier is man himself. The price has been paid, atonement made for the propitiation of man’s sin. God though the death and resurrection of His only Son Jesus the true one and only Christ! Through Him, God made a doorway back to Himself, for us all to be reconciled. But we must enter that door ourselves. No one can do it for us. John 10:7-9 says, “So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.”

 

You may be like I once was, broken, unhappy, unfulfilled, until I trusted God to do for me that which I could not do for myself.  Will you trust Him today sweet friend, to fill that hole that is in your heart and no matter what you try to fill it with, nothing satisfies? He longs to satisfy that empty void. Will you trust Him to do that for you?

 

Loving on you today!

Bren