This morning, I started back reading the next part of Lysa’s book. Y’all, I had to stop for a minute as I was reading it. Before I started, I whispered to God a short little prayer, “I want to see more of you, learn more about you.” Well, He revealed something that I probably should have already known being saved for so long, but then again probably not, ‘cause I never studied to understand. I kept going back and reading it over and over again!
I’m a perfectionist. I guess we are all at times, because we were created that way…but at times I let that perfection of what things should look like be a disappointment when it doesn’t go the way I had planned. I have always had the question of why did God create Adam and Eve if He knew they were going to sin? Well, today she asked the same question and gave amazing insight to my heart! This is awesome stuff, people:
“I mean, once Adam and Eve sinned, couldn’t God strip the awareness and craving for perfection out of their hearts before He vanished them from the garden? Yes, He certainly could have done that. But to strip out the cause of our disappointment would Also rob us of the glorious hope of where we are headed.”
You see, if there wasn’t that sin in the garden, we wouldn’t appreciate Jesus. We are living in a love story with our Creator. That disappointment, discontent and heartache puts an ache in our heart to long for God…because we want to get back to that perfection in which we were created.
Read Revelation 21:3-5.
We will get back there if we have put our trust in Him. We will be restored back to Eden….perfection.
Our hearts were created for perfection, but we don’t live there now. We need Jesus. He is our perfection. God always has a plan…even when we try to do things our way, His plan will happen. He knows the beginning and the end. We make the choices on how we choose to get there. Just remember, everything in this world will disappoint you eventually…but God never disappoints. His ways are higher…that’s why we don’t always understand them. Disappointments will come, but use them as a catalyst to dig deeper in your faith and trust the promise in Revelation 21 as we live in between the two gardens of perfection.
*this is not my drawing, but oh how it represents exactly what I read today!
