The Way The World Works - Part 3

Summary: God gives us a home and sets up our core principles for success.

Genesis 2:8-9
Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. And the Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground---trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Application: God puts the entire world at our disposal... but he doesn't force it all upon us at once. It would be a little overwhelming. His first action is to give us a home. A place of safety and security where all we need is set up for us. He does the first part for us. He grows beauty and provides us with our first experieneces, examples of what the world can look like and eventually create ourselves. He wants us to succeed and to see what we need to strive for, what the upkeep of the world can produce if we are willing to try for it.

Not only does he provide a home of safety and security filled with his blessings for us, he organizes it in such a way that we can understand it. At the centre of all that God provides stands the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of Good and evil. He shows us that these two pillars should be at the core of our world, that they stand at the centre of beauty and all that God has for us. We must have life and live it abundantly, the life that only God provides. And we must be haters of evil and lovers of good. The difference between good and evil should be at the core of all our decisions, the determining path for which way we set out in life.