It’s Easy! Sometimes…

You are truly awesome! You are the son or daughter of the God Who imagined and then spoke into being everything that exists! But…

You’re in that stupid flesh. The likelihood of any of us getting anything right in the circumstances in which we live is pitifully low. Even on the days when we have a sober look at our proneness to failure and our apparent desire to be deceived, it’s worse than we think…

This set of parameters and norms does not trouble Yahweh. He knows that we need the cookies on the bottom shelf or we can’t reach them. He knows that it is only when He works in us to will and to do what pleases Him that we ever get any of it right. He knows how often He has to stack the deck with cards in our favor for us to walk out with any prizes. He seems to like things this way.

Maybe it gives Him greater glory that the bride of the second Adam chooses His way over the wrong way, even though she has more reasons not to. The bride of the first Adam gave in easily, became confused easily, and did these things in circumstances that included walking with God in the cool of the evening. So innocent that she thought being naked in public was cool.

The second Adam’s wife has been raised in the streets and alleys with no hope of knowing God apart from having faith in a story that is as easy to disprove as it is to prove on days. But when she listens to His Spirit, she can do all things, and do them with righteousness. She has been forgiven much. That has been anointed to mean that she therefore loves much.

Expect it to work. Even though on days it won’t. Your Dad has confidence in you. He picked you.