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.
If the gaze of man awakens fear in us, how much more so the gaze of God. If we feel exposed by people, we will feel devastated before God. To even think of such things is too overwhelming. Our hearts tremble at the thought, and we do everything we can to avoid it. One way to avoid God’s eyes is to live as if fear of other people is our deepest problem – they are big, not God.
Edward Welch