Love in the Garden

Salvation is simple.

God himself tells us what He asks of us to be brought into that passionate embrace and relationship that will bind us together forever.

Luke 10: 25 And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying Master, what shall I do to be saved? 26 He said unto him, What is written in the Torah? How do you read it? 27 And he as his answer said, You shall love the Lord thy God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself. 28 And he said unto him, You have answered correctly: this do, and you will be saved.

This comes from the mouth of God himself erasing all the complexity of human theology. We must love the God who made us and made the world for us to love. We are called to love the likeness of God that is stamped on each of His beloved creatures.

The sin of Adam and Eve was to seek to know good and evil when they were created to seek the knowledge of the glory of God. God created a woman for man because it was not good to be alone. One wonders if that was the reason for the creation of it all.

He is a sociable God, curious about his creatures. God in the Old Testament and Jesus in the New are a bundle of questions. Our purpose is to question, to find and to understand as much about him as we can find in His Word and in his world. We search not because we wish to be saved but because we wish to be saved but because we want to know all we can about Him who we love.