Walking in the garden

Hey everybody! Our teacher for this week is amazing! We are talking about the Fear of the Lord. Very interesting! To give you a small ‘ look ‘ into our DTS read this story! But don’t use binoculars for it! Find out why!

So one day Adam and God are walking through the garden of Eden. God taps Adam on the shoulder and says: Hey Adam, Listen up!’ ‘Uhh..yeah God?’ Adam says. ‘Adam, I have a gift for you!’ ‘Ahh sweet’ Adam says. ‘ I like gifts!’

‘This is a really special gift’, says God while He gives Adam a binocular. ‘Hmm…A binocular’ Adam thinks. God says: Now this is really important. Use this binocular only when you look at Me. And when you look at me, use them. These are the rules coming with this gift. You got to obey the rules or it will not show the true image. You got that?’

Off course Adams response is yes and God challenges Him to try it out! Adam slowly brings his binocular to his eyes and looks at God…’WOW… God, you are so BIG!’
‘ Yes. I am God says. You got that right’ ‘ But..uuuh..your incredible!’ Adam says. Yes, God says. ‘ But remember: ‘Never use them for anything else!’ Adam says ‘oke!’ And looks at God again, and just marvels. Than the two go their separate ways.

Adam walks through the garden and all of a sudden sees an ant! Such a tiny ant he wonders. Would the binocular also work with this one he thinks…already forgotten what is was God said! He looks at the ant, and the ant is suddenly BIG! He totally looses the perspective of an ant. He looks at Eve, and that totally changes his perspective on women! Or destroys his perspective, you could say! Everything that was supposed to be looked through His eyes is now seen through the binocular.

After a while He hears God coming again in the garden again! Adam walks happily towards God. God askes: ‘Hey Adam. Do you still have your binoculars?’ ‘ Yes Lord, still have them!’ ‘ Use them on Me again!’ God says. So Adam takes his binoculars, looks at God and sees God. But wait… God is not bigger at all! ‘What happened?’ Adam thinks! Before Adam knew it, he lost his perspective on God. God didn’t seem so big at all anymore!

And…does it make sense already? Just for those who would like some explanation! Ooh…And I was one of those! The binocular is the binocular of fear of the Lord. When we use it on something that is not God. It becomes something that it is totally not! Totally blown out of proportion. When we look at the world around us, I think we can we can state that we use it a lot for the wrong things. We look at terrorism, or at appearances. So now other people can suddenly become something we’re afraid of!

The thing is though that fear was never intended as something to be afraid. God created fear so we can look at him with awe. Realizing He is really BIG! With reverence, the highest form of respect. Fearing God is the key to knowing God. It is the beginning of wisdom. (Proverbs 9:10) And as we know all wisdom comes from God.

Thankfully Jesus came. He took our binocular, cleaned the glass and gave them back. You can only live a life with God if we have the binocular of Fear of God. So now it’s cleaned, we can use them again. So I guess now it’s up to us how we use them!

Well I loved this story! I hope you enjoyed it to! DTS is an awesome place to learn new things! We still have 10 weeks to go in the lecture phase after tomorrow! Lectures every day! Pretty awesome!

- Bendert