Good morning…
When we are afraid we begin to draw lines. “Us or them.” “In or out.” “Bad or good.” Our lines litter our own comfort zone, shutting out others, “No. No. No.”
The very first female did the exact same thing. We pick up Eve’s story in Genesis 3:1-3. Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”
Did you catch the first line ever drawn by a person? Eve said, “And you must not touch it,” but God never said, “Do not touch the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.” He said, “Don’t eat it.” The serpent stepped on the nerve of Eve’s fear and she anxiously drew a line, “If I touch it, I will more likely eat it, so I better say, ‘God says, “Don’t touch it.'” This lie is white and little. But all of us know that little white lies have a way of snowballing out of our control, picking up guilt and shame, excuses and more lies.
Conversing with the LORD of light, our hardened inner snowball begins to melt, and we start living free from our self-protective lines. No “us or them.” No “in or out.” No “bad or good.” Our trust zone is padded with, “Yes, God, yes.”
God has redeemed my life from going to the pit [of destruction], and my life shall see the light. Behold, God does all these things twice, yes, three times, with a man, to bring his life back from the pit [of destruction], that he may be enlightened with the light of the living (Job 33:28-30, AMP)
…Sue…
