Welcome to the real world

Tuesday February 12th, Genesis 3: 6 The woman stared at the fruit. It looked beautiful and tasty. She wanted the wisdom that it would give her, and she ate some of the fruit. Her husband was there with her, so she gave some to him, and he ate it too. 7 Right away they saw what they had done, and they realized they were naked. Then they sewed fig leaves together to make something to cover themselves. Welcome to the real world!! Death occurred in an instant in the story, science tells us to took place over a millennium, they are both right in many ways. Humanity has moved from instinctual being to reasoned being, from created, to created in the image of God. Good can be seen and in contrast, so can evil. Nakedness, the total exposure before God and one another is replaced by shame and the painful attempt to cover ones self with the abrasive quality of fig lives. Life is not easy from here on, with good in our sights, evil is always there also, pulling us off the path God has set before us. Just as parents are thrilled and pained at each new stage in their child’s life, so too is God thrilled and pained at the life of this child call humanity. Thrilled at the first steps, yet concerned at where they will go, thrilled at talking, yet concerned at what they will say, thrilled at going to school, yet concerned at what they might learn from one another, thrilled at their ability to drive, yet concerned at what they are going out of our sight so late at night, and on and on it goes. God too is thrilled at each new step we take, as individuals and as humanity, yet concerned at what direction evil will pull us aside and how we will handle it. Created in the image of God, the maturity is yet to follow.