The tree we should have ignored.
It occurs to me that 96.2% of our walk with Jesus is spent trying to figure out right from wrong. We want to ascertain what areas of our lives (or, more importantly, other people’s lives) are bad or wrong or evil or sinful. We want to have a clear list of dos and don’ts to live by, and we want to introduce other people to our list.
We want to be God.
After all, that’s what the snake promised. Remember, when we ate that fruit. From that tree. The one with the knowledge of good and evil.
Here’s the thing. We can either be living out this walk with Jesus from the place of Genesis 3 or Genesis 1. Before that fruit, or after.
If we truly believe that Jesus came to make us new creations, and restore us to God’s intentions, then we have to come to terms with the fact that God never intended us to be able to tell good from evil.
Every law we have is a result of the fall. Before the fall, there was no law. There was only relationship. There was a holy naïvety in the way we were intended to live. And If Jesus is restoring us, we must be moving back in that direction. We must be vomiting that fruit. We must be unlearning what we know.
So, maybe we should throw out our lists, and walk with God in the cool of the day.
So true, we were never meant to know good from evil, but rather, to walk in relationship and to know the freedom of being.
