God knows everything, at all times. The Bible sometimes speaks of God as having changed His mind or being disappointed. God is supposed to have tested Abraham’s obedience in the matter of Isaac. God is supposed to have had His plans upset by the misconduct of Adam and Eve, by the general wickedness of humanity before the flood, and, in fact, He is frequently represented as being disappointed and even frustrated by the conduct of mankind. In orthodox theology, the devil was continually upsetting God’s arrangements and bringing his plans to naught. Indeed, to listen to some preachers, one would have supposed that the devil was a good deal more powerful than God.
Of course, all this is nonsense. Such things could not be really true of God. It was Abraham’s idea of God that led him to prepare to kill Isaac. It was the wickedness of mankind in the antediluvian world that brought on the flood as a natural consequence, just as the fears, hatreds, jealousies, and greed of mankind over many years have brought on war.
We make an idolatrous image of ourselves and call it God. Let us destroy this image today and worship the true God who is infinite and unchanging Good.
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent … (Number 23:19).
One day we will know that all our troubles emanate from our separation from God and God’s children. When we choose to put ourselves before God, we separate ourselves from God. This causes us to live in the world we created instead of the Eden God created for us. The world we create exposes us to every form of human weakness such as vanity, pride and ego. When we allow these weaknesses into our garden we subject ourselves to those things we experience as doubt, fear, anxiety and every other form of human weakness. When we indulge these weakness it causes the words, thoughts and deeds that hurt us and hurt others.
The source of our problems is not God, it is separation form God. When we put God first, then we become one with God and can live each day in the joy and gladness of the garden he created for us. In this world we have access to peace and the love of the Good God, and we rise above the negative experiences and obstacles of this world.
In communion,
Z gardener
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