5. THE BETRAYAL OF THE BEAUTIFUL / THE BROKENNESS: Our Emotional, Physical & Spiritual POSITION

THE BETRAYAL OF THE BEAUTIFUL Episode 5 THE BROKENNESS: Our Emotional, Physical & Spiritual POSITION The Garden of Affliction “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? “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.” Romans 8:18 THE BETRAYAL OF THE BEAUTIFUL Episode 5 THE BROKENNESS: Our Emotional, Physical & Spiritual POSITION I am taking you on a Biblical Journey, through The Betrayal of the Beautiful, when SIN Entered In, to the place where we begin BELIEVING BROKENNESS. Today I am going to explain, and expose, the “WHO” of our BATTLE against ALL Brokenness. The Entrance of our Spiritual Enemy. We will begin BEFORE BROKENNESS, in The Beautiful Garden of Eden, where we left off last. Picture Heaven’s Heart for every BEAUTIFUL BELIEVER. Picture yourself there, in His Heart. You are His Beautiful Creation. His Beautiful child. His Beautiful Son. His Beautiful Daughter. Perfection, exactly AS you are. You are a Spirit breathing Life, with a Soul, living in a Physical body. Created as an Image Bearer of LIGHT, of LIFE, and of BEAUTY. You are a Bearer of THE BEAUTIFUL, begotten by God. You are a child of GOD. You are Spirit, and Mind, and Body, and you have intimate Fellowship WITH GOD. You walk with Him, and you talk with Him, in Perfect Relationship, in Perfect Communion, in Perfect Harmony. You know NO FEAR. You know His HEART. You know His VOICE. You know His LOVE. You know His PROVISION, and His PROTECTION. And, you know His COMMAND. Genesis 2:15-25 (NKJV) ”15 Then the Lord God took [a]the man and put him in the garden of Eden to [b]tend and keep it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 17 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[c] shall surely die.” This is why it is so important to SEE and KNOW, WHO we were created to BE, and WHO we were created to BELIEVE. This was a test of their faithfulness, through Obedience. Obedience and Disobedience both have consequences. We are created with Free Will, and Choice, so that we might choose obedience. We reap the consequences of the choices we make, of the seeds we sow. The consequences of the Choice of Obedience are: Spiritual Life, Health, and the abundant Blessings of God’s Provision, Protection, and Peace with God; which is intimate fellowship, and communion with God. The consequences of the Choice of Disobedience are: Spiritual Death and Separation from God; a loss of Intimacy, loss of Provision, Protection, Life, Health, Peace, and Communion. So the enemy, distorted The Word of God. He used a portion of the Truth, but not the whole Truth, of the Word of God, to manipulate her thinking. He made her question God’s Words, and question God’s Authority in her situation, as though God had withheld something good from her…Wisdom! She was deceived by the Lies, and by Satan’s manipulation of the Word of God. As she was Tempted, she saw that the fruit was good for food, the Lust of the Flesh, that it was pleasing to the eye, the Lust of the Eyes, and that it was desirable for gaining wisdom, the Pride of Life. This is the same way Satan tempts us all today. -He lies to us about our circumstances. -He distorts the Truth of the Word of God to manipulate our thinking. -He tempts us to question God’s intentions for our good. -He tempts us to doubt God’s Authority in our circumstance. -He tempts us to Believe that what he has to offer us, is better than what God has already given us. -He tempts us to Believe his word as truth, over the Authority of God’s Word as Truth. -He tempts us to disobey the Word of God, and sin. This was a Physical act with Spiritual consequences. Sin, and Death, entered humanity through this Act of Disobedience. Now, there was not only Good in the Garden. Now, they had knowledge of both GOOD and EVIL. The eyes of both of them were opened, and they KNEW. (Genesis 3:7) They knew EVIL. Evil entered into the world, through an Act of Disobedience to the Command of God. GRASPING YOUR GRACE When there seems but a glimpse to hold onto I close my eyes to make Fear go away and my Heart lifts its’ cries up to you, LORD grasping Your Grace for today I rest in the Peace that surrounds me when there is no peace to be found Lost in the list of Confusion as yesterday’s News brought me down LORD, You are my Strength and my Courage My Resting Place when I am weak You are the Rock that I stand on the Foundation of Love that I seek Faithfulness comes to the Faithful when all we Believe slips away And Your arms are the Wings that we fly on when everything else goes astray Believe the Beautiful!