Communion, not Control
When Father made man He put him in a Paradise, with a task. Like any garden, it needed to be nurtured and protected and Father told Adam to “dress and keep” the garden. We also have the boundaries outlined for us and when you look at it the size was very large – most of the Middle East.
So think a minute. Even if Adam was 10 feet tall and could run 50 miles per hour, there was no way that he could guard the perimeter and get to a particular location in time to effect a protective action. Did that mean Father gave Adam an impossible task and set him up for failure?
Look again.
Every day Father came and spoke with Adam and Eve, fellowshipping and communing (and I think discussing with them how to do the gardening, and living, that needed to be done).
So think again for another minute. God is Spirit and can only communicate in spirit.
Putting all this together I have to make the following conclusion:
Adam was living on the planet in a physical body, having a physical experience, but was doing so by thinking, choosing, emoting in spirit.
So instead of an impossible task, Father gave Adam a “growing” task. I believe he could literally sit in the middle of the garden – or anywhere for that matter – and in his spirit’s eye look over the entire garden and know what was going on, then take appropriate action in a timely and effective manner.
As part of this scenario, there was also the state of “naked and unashamed” which means that there was perfect clarity at every level of Adam’s existence. There was nothing in the way to prevent Adam from communicating with every level of himself, with his wife, and with God. There was nothing which would prevent his spirit from hearing and seeing anything in the garden.
In that context there was also a hierarchy of authority that kept things in proper order: Father was at the top overseeing everything, communicating, teaching, loving Adam and Eve. Adam was next, keeping watch over the garden, loving his wife. Eve was last inline, offering her beauty and insight.
This was a perfect arrangement, based on communion, with control and submission in the appropriate order. The only thing that could upset this applecart was for the disciple to try to take over the place of the teacher, for the communion to be replaced by control.
And that is exactly what happened.
Father set it up to give Adam the choice: choose Life or choose Knowledge. Choose to return Father’s love and be present with Him in fellowship and communion or choose to be self-sufficient and in control of his own existence.
Adam, we know, chose to take control (the big lie of the serpent – you will be like God; He isn’t really loving you; His communion with you isn’t really in your best interest; you can do a better job if you do it yourself).
(Question: what would you have done? What do you still do?)
Adam chose Control over Communion. In analogy, he chose to boot Father out of the driver’s seat of the motorcycle instead of riding on behind, a place where he had no control.
As we know, it had fatal and ongoing, damning consequences.
What were those consequences? How does it affect our life today?
Next time.
Blessings,
Dr Jon
