extra credit

Saturday October 12^th, Luke 17:  7 "Suppose one of you had a servant plowing or looking after the sheep. Would he say to the servant when he comes in from the field, 'Come along now and sit down to eat'? 8 Would he not rather say, 'Prepare my supper, get yourself ready and wait on me while I eat and drink; after that you may eat and drink'? 9 Would he thank the servant because he did what he was told to do? 10 So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, 'We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.' "  Back to the garden.  The first sin on earth is the temptation of eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  It was the temptation to possess all knowledge and therefore, be like God, or perhaps even consider yourself to be god.  Our calling is simply to do the will of God, to love justice, show mercy and walk humbly before our God.  It is tempting to be like the student who wanted to do all the extra credit work in school hoping it would completely negate and overshadow the lack of doing the basics of everyday homework in class.  Do your homework first, which is to love justice, show mercy and walk humbly before God, then comes the extra credit of throwing mulberry trees in the water.