Page 32 answering me. I believe it’s because we already know the answer. It’s your choice. The Lord said we may freely eat from any tree in the garden except for the forbidden tree. So long as we don’t eat from the forbidden tree, you may prepare these fruits any way that you like. Now there’s a point in this imaginative story. God’s will is like a parking lot. You can miss God’s will by being outside of the parking lot. But as long as you are in the parking lot, then you may freely choose any parking space you wish. Put another way, you cannot miss His will in the parking lot! The parking lot represents God’s moral will. In the garden scene, God’s moral will was to eat from any tree in the garden except for the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Beyond that, which tree to eat from, how to eat, when to eat, and how to prepare the fruit was left to the choice of the first man and the first woman. Take a deep breath now, and let that sink in. This raises a crucial question. How do we as believers discover the moral will of God? How do we determine the boundaries of the parking lot? There is a subjective way and an objective way. Let’s first explore the subjective way.
Christ Himself with all His glory will be really and continually with us. We shall no longer have to be satisfied with the mere descriptions of Him that we have in the gospel. We shall see Him face to face (1 Corinthians 13:12) and as He is (1 John 3:2). We shall see Him with our bodily eyes, for Job says: “In my flesh shall I see God (my Redeemer), whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold” (Job 19:25-27). Our bodily senses will be restored and glorified in a way we cannot now understand, in order that we may be able to look at Christ and His glory forever and ever. We shall see not only His human nature but His divinity also in its infinite wisdom, love and power. That glory will be a thousand times more than anything we can imagine.
John Owen