High and lifted up.

“And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.”

The amazing thing about this verse is that it talks about factories. Each tree contains many factories and each factory is called a leaf. These leaves capture energy from the sun, using chlorophyl as a catalyst and carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to create the basic energy, carbohydrates, that every living thing needs. Carbon dioxide constitutes only about .04% of the gases in the atmosphere, while oxygen constitutes about 20% of the gases in the atmosphere. Isn’t it incredible that the LORD God is able to use only .04% of the gases in the atmosphere to produce all the energy that every living creature needs to live? Our job is to be impressed with the greatness of our God and His amazing ability to supply everything that we need with so little effort on His part. We live in a day when people talk about the importance in having great faith but we just need faith the size of a mustard seed (very small, see Matt 13: 31). It is the size of our God that matters not the size of our faith or ability.

The other interesting things about this verse is that it introduces the concept of choice into the human story. God gave us the ability to choose as a sign of His grace (see The Scarlet Thread for a full justification of this). If we choose to enjoy God’s love then our enjoyment of that love is significantly greater than if we are forced to enjoy God’s love. However, as God has perfect integrity, He gives us whatever we choose, with the overriding codicil that He takes His time in giving us the consequences of any choice not to enjoy His love in case we want to change our minds. This is another fact that gives evidence to the majesty and greatness of our God.

This is now the time for every Christian to devote their time to enjoying the greatness of our God and to put every thought of our own effort or ability to one side. Christianity is always small people doing small things in a small way, in conjunction with Almighty God doing almighty things in His almighty way. All we need is to be like Isaiah and have a vision of “the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up...” (Is 6: 1)

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(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)