God Made a Way

“He who sows good seed is the Son of Man, the field is the world, the good seed the children of the Kingdom. The weeds are the children of the Evil One, and the enemy who sows them is the Devil.” Matthew 13:37-39

The world is God’s garden and we can read in Genesis that He made this world absolutely awesome and beautiful. “And God saw that it was good.” This verse is repeated several times when He was creating the stars, vegetation, and living creatures. Even when He created mankind, He repeated, “God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.” (Genesis 1:31) Good. So where does evil come into the world? Well, from the story of the first people, Adam and Eve, we see how because when God made us in His image, He also gave us the most incredible gift of free will. And just like Adam and Eve, we can choose to follow God’s best for us, or we can follow the opposite, which is what Eve was enticed to do. Out of all the good trees in the garden, she had to eat from the exact tree that God told them not to eat!

Adam was told clearly, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.” (Genesis 2:16) Nāḥāš which is Hebrew for snake or serpent is the creature representing the forces against man and God, and it was this creature who invited Eve to consider eating the fruit from the tree of good and evil. “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” (Genesis 3:4-5)

And today, that same wily creature keeps bothering us and tempting us to disobey God, to think we know best for ourselves, to put ourselves first, to make our own rules, and make idols of man made desires. But we know that even if this world is dark and makes us weary most of the time with all the quarrels and toxicity, goodness will prevail because God made a way even where there is no way. Let us hold fast to the Lord, the Lamb of God, who ransomed us from the grave.