Return to the
Garden
BIn all God calls us to, we must realize that there are practical steps that must be taken. Our main focus upon this earth is to be changed back into the image of God. It is in this place that we lose the identity which is called our‘ old life’.
Jesus said,“ follow Me” and leave everything behind. These are still words of truth that we should be adhering to. In other, words, the words that prepared Jesus’ disciples are also the same words that will prepare us to become like Him today. See Luke 14:25-35.
Therefore, our call is as it has always been, to pursue the Lord, which in reality leads us out of man’ s world and what he thinks his time is. Every breath we breathe, to every step we
take belongs to the Lord who gives us life daily. Which is why in covenant relationship we allow God to measure our steps, so we can again walk in the Kingdom with Him.
Our call continues to be one of the most basic principles in any given relationship. We must truly come full circle to get back into the place Adam and Eve once knew. That place where they spent everyday walking with the Lord, which is the pathway that leads us back into our Promised Land that is also called Rest. See Hebrews 4.
As we spend time relationally with God, the atmosphere of His Kingdom continually changes us, as it did when the disciples followed Jesus. In fact, they followed Jesus back into God’ s presence, where they were prepared for His promised inheritance.
Revelation 21:7 and Acts 1:4 speaks of this inheritance which is still available to those who follow the Lord.
Worshiping Him, spending time in prayer or focusing our attention upon His voice and heart, will all lead us deeper into the garden, the kingdom of God.
You see, when Adam and Eve fell into lucifer’ s trap by eating fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they actually bit into satan’ s realm called fallen time. It is the fallen realm man has continued to believe in, the great deception that causes man to think all he has is his time to make money, so that he can build and live like the rest of the world. However, we have always been
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