Childish Clamorings and Our Patient Father
I was listening to the Pure Doctrine podcast this morning, hosted by a friend, Mike Williamson, ( Genesis...Trouble in the Garden ) the passage that he references in the podcast recalled to mind a humbling realization. "Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”" Genesis 2:1-5 Like Adam and Eve, the desire for what we cannot have is ing