| Written by ola aroyehun,
on Tuesday 10/06/09
|
Views : 108  |
Favoured : 12 |
Dear All
I hope that you all had a good summer break. I am sorry I have been off the radar for a couple of weeks and thanks to all of you who have asked about the newsletter. I took some time off over the summer holidays and took a well-deserved break and went off to the States and Canada.
Summer (or sometimes early autumn) for me has always been a time for reflection. A time when I go over the life goals I have set, evaluate the success of my action points and set myself new challenges. I review my progress against last year’s objectives and make sure that my goals are moving me towards a successful and significant life.
Summer is also the time when I tend to experience ‘spiritual rest’ – again evaluating my spiritual life and have a time of refreshing and waiting before the Lord. I hope that you do the same from time to time. Whatever you did over the summer holidays and for those of you whose seasons are like mine, I hope you all had an enjoyable one.
Just before I went on holiday, I was thinking of sharing with you some insights about a subject that I had been studying - on the Garden of God. I started to think about what God’s original environment for man to live in must have been like. What were some of the characteristics that made it so special? I started to ask myself if I was living in God’s original environment. I believe that God wants to reconcile us back to the living conditions that God initially wanted us to live in.
Many people mistakenly believe that God’s original environment where man was expected to live was a place where there was an absence of sin. We believe that due to the world being tainted by nearly 4000 years of sin, it is therefore impossible to live in that environment again. In reality the Garden of Eden was a place where the potential for sin was always present, because the enemy had access.
Having cleared up this misconception, we now ask ourselves, whether we are living in God’s original garden as He ordained us to. We need to know the original plans of God, in regards to what type of place the garden was and how God wanted to us to dwell.
I will continue to study the subject in depth and in my next post; I will send you a list of 31 things that I found out about the garden. The list will help us highlight whether we are living according to God’s original environment or whether we are living according to the natural environment of the world.
One of my favourite prayers at the moment is for God to enable me to EXPERIENCE the truth in His word and not just know the ‘letter’. Why not make this your prayer also? I would be sharing further thoughts on my social networking site www.purposeforchrostians.com.
If you are reading this post on another site, then I suggest you sign up to our social networking site May the Lord keep you and guard you and continue to make His light and glory shine upon you.
Until I appear again in your in-box, stay blessed
Ola
Last update : Tuesday 11/10/09
|
|
Users' Comments  |
|
Average user rating
 (0 vote)
|
|
|
Enter your details to receive your free ebook and regular newsletter
Blogs 
