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WARNING - Blogging in the Garden of Good and Evil.
by Lewis McNeely on Thursday, Jun 14th, 2007 at 10:21 pm
Warning - Blogging in theGarden of Good and Evil.

 Gen 3:23-24  So the LORD God sent him away from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.  He drove man out, and east of the garden of Eden He stationed cherubim with a flaming, whirling sword to guard the way to the tree of life.

   I want back in. I am not content to stay outside the garden any longer. And yet somehow I do not see the way. (I know Jesus is the way so that is not what I mean.) I mean the second Adam is beckoning me to come back into the garden. He paid the price. He paved the way. His blood is the ticket back into Eden and yet sometimes the path there seems blurry. Don’t misunderstand; I NEVER want Egypt again. I’ve been there, as they say, and got the shirt. No it’s not about looking back, thinking back, or acting back. I say, like Peter said in John 6:68 when multitudes of disciples walked away from the best thing that ever happened in their lives: "Lord, who will we go to? You alone have the words of eternal life.”

 To get back into the garden: That isthe whole point of the Christian Endeavor. Not about getting things, getting health or even getting Joy. It’s about getting Him. What made the garden great wasn’t the tree of life. It wasn’t the lack of a curse or even walking around clothed in glory. The Garden was awesome and wonderful and fulfilling because HE was there. Adonai-Jehovah, El-Elyon, El'Olam, El-Shaddai, Jehovah-Elohim, Jehovah-Ropheka , Jehovah-Shalom, Jehovah-Mekaddishkem, Jehovah-Sabaoth, Jehovah-Shammah, Jehovah-Hoseenu,  Jehovah-Eloheenu… Abba… Father. That is why the garden is great. It’s because Daddy was there.

 I saw a Star Trek movie and there was this guy who got into a form of eternity called the Nexus but was somehow pulled out by a transporter wave. It was like heaven where you lived the best days of your life. He then spent the next 75 years doing nothing but trying to figure out how to get back in. He would pay any price and spend any amount of money to get back in. What will you and I do to get back into the Garden? To get back into a daily close intimate walk holding hands with Daddy-God?  Jesus paid the price and yet wemust still ENTER into that rest. Heb 4:1  “Therefore, while the promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear so that none of you should miss it”

 We must enter it. We must find our life that is hidden in Christ. We must pay any price to rest in Him. Non-stop entertainment or back to The Garden? Food and drink without restraint or His presence? Save our lives or lose it so we can find Daddy walking toward us in the cool of the Day? Through Messiah, I will get back in.

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