While Books Eleven and Twelve were great and beautifully written, I think I liked Ten the best out of the three because it showed just how merciful our God really is. To be honest, Adam and Eve didn’t get what they deserved. God had already made it clear from the start that whosoever should eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was to die, but the Son still had enough patience to intercede and basically say, “Hey, I know they deliberately disobeyed this rule, but it’s okay. They don’t have to die for this sin, because one day I will. I will fix what they have broken. I will fix what mankind has brought upon themselves.” Gosh, I just can’t even begin to imagine this type of patience our Lord has for us. It’s impossible, unthinkable, unmeasurable- things the human mind literally cannot wrap itself around. I know He had to be holding back in that moment. Even though He didn’t let Adam and Eve off the hook completely, there was so much more He could have done, so much more. And even with the punishment he assigned to each, man and woman, there was still something good they could get out of it, a blessing inside a curse. For Eve, she had to grapple with the pains of childbirth, but afterwards, got to hold a new life in her hands and look into the eyes of the very thing God formed inside her. For Adam, he had to work all the days of his life to provide for his family but still figured doing something every day was a lot better than doing nothing every day.
This shows God isn’t a critic on a cloud. He’s the Father, our Father. He loves like a father would and he punishes like a father would, not to break us down like most people accuse Him of but to build us back up.
I commented on blogs by Madison Flowers and Moriah Nelson.
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