We all struggle with it. We all are tempted by it. We all
want to make it happy. What is it? IT is our ego. Ever since Eve turned her
eyes away from God and “saw the tree was good for food, was pleasant to the
eyes, and a tree beautiful to contemplate,” (Genesis 3.6 SAAS) we human beings
have been in a war between following God and following our ego. And we all know
who was winning the war....until Christ came 2000 years ago.
When God became a human being, just like one of use “yet
without sin” (Hebrews 4.15 NKVJ) He introduced a way we could finally win the
war. He gave us the Cross. Jesus said, “Whoever desires to come after Me, let
him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.” (Mark 8.34) But before
we are able to take up our cross and follow, we must FIRST deny ourselves. The
mistake Eve made in the Garden, long before she ate from the Tree of Knowledge
of Good and Evil, was that she turned her eyes away from God and followed her
herself.
The mission of Christ is to restore what was lost in the
Garden, and to complete His original plan for us to be in communion with Him.
His part is finished. He defeated death by dying on the Cross, being buried and
then resurrected. He join us to His divinity when He ascended to His Throne in
Heaven. The rest is up to us follow Him into Heaven. But before we can follow
Him we have to stop following ourselves.
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