While I look at my waist and sometimes wonder if fat burners might help, one thing I know I need to eliminate is the spiritual flubber surrounding my life. Nothing’s better for that than prayer and digging into the Word of the L-RD.
Here’s more from my Shof’tim commentary. Or listen to it!
While I could go into detail on any of these teachings, as I studied and prayed through this passage, my overwhelming question to ADONAI was, “L-RD, how did we get into this mess? Why must we be so involved in the messiness of setting such high standards for leaders of various types and such harsh punishments for various crimes? Why must we deal with so much death and bloodshed?”
As I studied and prayed, however, I was reminded of where it all began. In fact, it goes all the way back to the Garden.
Genesis 3:4-5
The serpent said to the woman, “It is not true that you will surely die; because God knows that on the day you eat from it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
This was the line that the serpent used to tempt Adam and Havah; the desire to know good and evil. Unfortunately, like all the lies of the Adversary, we did not receive what we thought we were getting. It is true that we became aware of knowing the difference between good and evil, but by doing so, we were actually replacing a role in creation that ADONAI had reserved for Himself.
We were not meant to decide right and wrong, and the testimony to the truth of that is all around us in the world. Because, unlike what the world would have us believe, we are not born as inherently good. We are born inherently selfish and self-serving, because since the fall, we are born not in the glorified and sin-free bodies Adam and Havah possessed at first in the Garden, but in finite, temporary bodies marred by sin and selfishness.
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Shof’tim Commentary, part 4
September 8th, 2008 by Craig Hansen
While I look at my waist and sometimes wonder if fat burners might help, one thing I know I need to eliminate is the spiritual flubber surrounding my life. Nothing’s better for that than prayer and digging into the Word of the L-RD.
Here’s more from my Shof’tim commentary. Or listen to it!
While I could go into detail on any of these teachings, as I studied and prayed through this passage, my overwhelming question to ADONAI was, “L-RD, how did we get into this mess? Why must we be so involved in the messiness of setting such high standards for leaders of various types and such harsh punishments for various crimes? Why must we deal with so much death and bloodshed?”
As I studied and prayed, however, I was reminded of where it all began. In fact, it goes all the way back to the Garden.
This was the line that the serpent used to tempt Adam and Havah; the desire to know good and evil. Unfortunately, like all the lies of the Adversary, we did not receive what we thought we were getting. It is true that we became aware of knowing the difference between good and evil, but by doing so, we were actually replacing a role in creation that ADONAI had reserved for Himself.
We were not meant to decide right and wrong, and the testimony to the truth of that is all around us in the world. Because, unlike what the world would have us believe, we are not born as inherently good. We are born inherently selfish and self-serving, because since the fall, we are born not in the glorified and sin-free bodies Adam and Havah possessed at first in the Garden, but in finite, temporary bodies marred by sin and selfishness.
Tags: commentary, fat burners, Shof'tim
This entry was posted on Monday, September 8th, 2008 at 4:40 am and is filed under Torah. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.