Genesis 2:9b the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

One of these trees came with a warning and a curse. The other was the cure. So often in this life solutions are right there in front of us, or at least close at hand. I find this to be true in the scriptures.

The Holy Spirit orders the scriptures and fashions them, neatly woven together to answer many of the questions which I present to the Lord in my seeking.

Psalm 119:2 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.

I depend on the Holy Spirit to reveal truth and in this He does not fail me. Praise God. This week He revealed a truth to me I did not seek, and I was surprised. It came as I prepared myself for this week’s discipleship meeting. I was reading the relevant scriptures and the answer in the scriptures. I already had the answer before I set the assignment.

Then as I read the whole chapter I was surprised to discover the answer right there in close proximity to the problem text. The cure was close to the curse. It was so obvious now. Why had I not seen it before? It was only obvious because the Holy Spirit showed me the connections beforehand.

This answer was in a summation form. It was boiled down to one salient point without any historical significance. So much of the Word is like that. You know that it works together without knowing why. We receive the blessing blindly without understanding why it was granted. Thank you Lord, then we move on.

I believe He deserves more than a thank you born of expectation.

Romans 7:22-23 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

While we are born again, a new creature, we are still flesh. I have the mind of Christ. I have my own flesh, which has not changed. Its nature has not been translated, at least not yet. I have to live with it. If you feel that struggle and cannot understand why God has allowed this to continue, I can offer only one answer.

Jude 25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.

The last line of our shortest epistle in the bible contains the answer.

We are achievers. In the beginning God gave us dominion over the whole earth, but not over our own selves.

Nehemiah 9:5 Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless the Lord your God for ever and ever: and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.

Would we exalt Him if we could do it ourselves? Would we give him honor and glory for anything that we might do if we did not recognize the futility of this duality we live with every day? Would we need a savior if we could do it ourselves?

The fact that He saved us does not mean we no longer need Him. We need Him now more than ever because we are now painfully aware of just how inadequate we are in this life.

2 Corinthians 3:5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;