1) "That I may find Him my greatest delight, priority, and purpose."
Ideals are difficult to reach, and great goals will not be accomplished apart from the favor of God.
Stepping out of natural inclinations and desires when life and experiences around us dominate the natural is impossible without grace from God. We are free to make choices, and without supernatural intervention lusts, emotions, feelings, and reasonings will rule our choices.
Christ will not force us to act against are will, but He does give grace to help us, and the Holy Spirit speaks to our conscience revealing His will. We choose to initiate, to engage Him and act with the grace He gives...which is enough!
"In the beginning God," is an active movement. He is as active with intentions and goals as when He created! He has not morphed into a God relevant to appease modern man. He is eternally relevant, solely supreme, capable to rule sovereignly, and actively desiring to redeem us to Himself in Christ!
Who are we to diagnose God? His decisions and His words with a natural human mind--or measure Him with reason and logic? Do we realize we are eating from the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil? We have forgotten these two trees still exist in our heart and continuously we choose which tree to sit under!
Adam and Eve chose to hang out under the wrong tree - deception, appearance, reason, feelings, emotions, and self interest--it has many names. It was not the tree of greatest delight nor the tree of greatest treasure. The other tree may not have been attractive - Christ was not attractive. But it was the tree of Life. It represents a person - God - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
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