Gen 3: 8 And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
9 Then the LORD God called to Adam and said to him, “Where are you?”
10 So he said, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.”
11 And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?”
God, of course knew where they were and why they were there; He asked questions for their sakes to lead them into understanding.
Luke 11: 9 “So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. 11 If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish? 12 Or if he asks for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? 13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”
Jesus is saying God will not give evil when His children seek Him for good.
Psalm 51: 7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8 Make me hear joy and gladness,
That the bones You have broken may rejoice.
9 Hide Your face from my sins,
And blot out all my iniquities.
V 17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit,
A broken and a contrite heart—
These, O God, You will not despise.¬¬
Is this the good that God has promised His children? Broken bones, a broken and contrite heart?
When Paul and Silas were publicly beaten and thrown in a dungeon, they sang hymns to God in response. When they had the opportunity to escape they didn’t do it. Instead they led the jailer to Christ. Can you give earthly understanding to this type of behavior?
The truth is that since Adam and Eve ate the apple, we have been trying to use the power of discernment of good and evil; an ability God did not intend for us to use.
Proverbs 3:5 instructs us not to lean on, or depend upon our understanding. We weren’t meant to trust it.
Psalm 119:67 Before I was afflicted I went astray,
But now I keep Your word.
Isaiah 55: 8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” says the LORD.
9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways,
And My thoughts than your thoughts.
9 Then the LORD God called to Adam and said to him, “Where are you?”
10 So he said, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.”
11 And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?”
God, of course knew where they were and why they were there; He asked questions for their sakes to lead them into understanding.
Luke 11: 9 “So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. 11 If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish? 12 Or if he asks for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? 13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”
Jesus is saying God will not give evil when His children seek Him for good.
Psalm 51: 7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8 Make me hear joy and gladness,
That the bones You have broken may rejoice.
9 Hide Your face from my sins,
And blot out all my iniquities.
V 17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit,
A broken and a contrite heart—
These, O God, You will not despise.¬¬
Is this the good that God has promised His children? Broken bones, a broken and contrite heart?
When Paul and Silas were publicly beaten and thrown in a dungeon, they sang hymns to God in response. When they had the opportunity to escape they didn’t do it. Instead they led the jailer to Christ. Can you give earthly understanding to this type of behavior?
The truth is that since Adam and Eve ate the apple, we have been trying to use the power of discernment of good and evil; an ability God did not intend for us to use.
Proverbs 3:5 instructs us not to lean on, or depend upon our understanding. We weren’t meant to trust it.
Psalm 119:67 Before I was afflicted I went astray,
But now I keep Your word.
Isaiah 55: 8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” says the LORD.
9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways,
And My thoughts than your thoughts.
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