Jesus’s Love Language: Obedience
Living Broken Again BLOG by Susan Vaughan Shumake
February 22, 2023
“Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to tend and keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” Genesis 2:15-17 NKJV In The Garden of Eden, there is Perfect Beauty. There is Perfect Relationship. There is Perfect Protection. There is Perfect Love. There is Perfect Provision. There is Perfect Choice. There is Perfect Work. And with every new day, there is a New Beginning, and there is a job to do, to tend and keep what God has given. There is a God given Garden to tend, and a Divine Work to Do within it. The Beauty of Eden. The Beautiful in the Beginning. The Beautiful Work of Creation given to me. Given to you. Can you See it? Can you Breathe it? God Breathing LIFE. Everything that lives, Breathes LIFE. God’s LIFE. God’s Breath-of-LIFE. It is mine. It is yours. There is God given LIFE, and there is a Choice to make, to cultivate, and to create, something Beautiful from the ground God has given. To create something from the Garden God has put me in. With every new day there is opportunity to stay, within the Boundaries of Obedience. I can choose to eat of any tree of the garden, or I can choose Death. In The Garden of Affliction, there is Perfect Beauty, there is Perfect Relationship, There is Perfect Protection. There is Perfect Love. There is Perfect Provision. There is Perfect Choice. There is Perfect Work. And with every new day, there is a New Beginning, and there is a job to do, to tend and keep what God has given. There is a God given Garden to tend, and a Divine Work to Do within it. The Beauty of Affliction. The Beautiful in the Becoming. The Beautiful Work of Creation given in me. Given in you. Can you See it? Can you Breathe it? God Breathing LIFE. Everything that lives, Breathes LIFE. God’s LIFE. God’s Breath-of-LIFE. It is mine. It is yours. There is God given LIFE and there is a Choice to make, to cultivate, and to create, something Beautiful from the ground God has given. To create something from the Garden God has put me in. With every new day there is opportunity to stay, within the Boundaries of Obedience. I can choose to eat of any tree of the garden, or I can choose Death. Within The Garden of Affliction, I can choose LIFE or I can choose Death. I choose LIFE! What will you choose? Romans 8:18 “For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.”
