RETURNING TO A CORNER OF EDEN

RETURNING TO A CORNER OF EDEN

Thursday, September 05, 2013

  “This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.

  Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth and no plant had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground, but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground. Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

  . . . Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. . . . Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. . . . Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature ...” (NLT Genesis chapter 2)

  Please sit quiet for a moment. Now remember a time when you were encouraged to draw, crayon, paint, shape, to make things out of other things, write tales real or make-believe.

  Among the few words God spoke to Adam that are recorded in the Genesis record is that the Sovereign Creator gave permission and encouragement to be creative.

  Though Adam, Eve, and all afterward are banned from place Eden, God did not nor has not prohibited creativity. Suppressing or killing creativity has been and continues to be man’s doing: Largely as product of man’s order for uniformity, rebellion for and against freedom, Genesis 3:19 work with its interpretation of achievement and success et al as opposed to Lord God’s gracious law of liberty.

  I personally believe Lord Jesus Christ “free indeed” (Jn.8:36), though not primarily having to do with, by provides  return to our exercising creativity as once done so many years ago.

  Where does Michael keep those crayons of his?  EBB4