Many years ago God spoke and created time. With that said I'll allow us to step off the seat of understanding we make for ourselves. We have to jump forward a week or more to find where we relate.
One fruit bearing plant was named the Tree of Life while another fruit bearing plant held the name the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Which one sounds like an investment and which one sounds like a good friday night? Now, why would Eve (you and me) pick fruit from the Friday Night Party Tree when you know she ate from the Tree of Investment before? Because curiosity is a gift of God. No one's more boring the the shallow Complacent.
Once that knowledge of self-empowerment entered Eve she realized that knowing what God knows might make us like God, but with one minor problem. We aren't God. In fact without a perfect union with the Spirit (obtained by a complete lack of self-empowerment) we can have nothing to do with the marriage of God and Man.
So, next time we find ourselves wanting something outside of total weakness IN CHRIST remember it sucks big time to watch God kill his own flawless and beautiful creation to clothes us (Genesis 3:21). It sucks to walk out of the Garden and into the barren world of a slow death. Until our bodies die we will feel the slow sting of self-empowerment.
What has changed since Adam and Eve is that Jesus has been slain to clothes our SPIRITUAL nakedness and shame (Genesis 27:50). That's where we're weak. We can clothes our bodies, but what good is that in the end? What good is that now? We still get so mad at everything and end up feeling overwhelmed and crumbling down to cry. The focus must shift from the physical to the Spiritual.
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