EXPECTING SANITY?

EXPECTING SANITY?

Friday, March 02, 2018

   Genesis [MKJV] 3:1-9 Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said to the woman, Is it so that God has said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden. But of the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die. And the serpent said to the woman, You shall not surely die, for God knows that in the day you eat of it, then your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as God, knowing good and evil. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasing to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make wise, she took of its fruit, and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. And the eyes of both of them were opened. And they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made girdles for themselves. And they heard the voice of Jehovah God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Jehovah God in the middle of the trees of the garden. And Jehovah God called to Adam and said to him, Where are you? And he said, I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I am naked, and I hid myself.

   2Timothy [MKJV] 1:7-9 For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. Therefore you should not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner. But be partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God, who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given us in Christ Jesus before the eternal times.

  Eve and then Adam were the first in line to add the knowledge of evil to the good they knew. This immediately evidenced in newfound neurosis and paranoia with its accompanying lack of prior sense of peace and security. And mankind has continued in queue ever since.

  People keep expecting sanity in this world dominated by life apart from God? For the masses it is not going to happen! (Eph.2:2; 6:10-18) But for His John 1:12 children God provides sanity . . . if we appropriate living His Way.

  Holding everlasting life through trusting Lord Jesus Christ as personal Redeemer, we are still faced with optional provisions from God, one of which is soundness of mind with its attendant peace; the condition always being reliance (trust) on His provision. (Heaven-bound and personal peace, though shouldn’t be in practice, for many Christians is two separate areas.)

  Let us accept that we are naked and ashamed without God’s covering; His covering the only true one; said covering exampled and explained throughout His Word. Examples involving those that accepted God’s covering and of those that did not are explained from Genesis through Revelation.

  God has put all we need for sanity on the level of human intellect. Our problem in not apprehending is not the lack of understanding, but that we filter truth thru our un-submissive resistant spirit; thereby denying ourselves sanity with peace that we long for and God wants us to enjoy.

  Jesus summed this up when he explained “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. … These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.“ (Jn.14:27;16:33) 

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