Blessing or Curse

God created man from the dust of the earth and breathed the breath of life into the mans nostrils, making him a living person. This is The Biblical account of mans existence and God breathed life. In Eden, God planted a garden and there he placed the man he made. The garden had lots of beautiful trees that produced delicious fruit and in the middle he placed the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. God gave instructions to the man, to tend the garden~work is not a punishment for the man, it is a form of occupation. God and the man had a relationship with information sharing and instruction. Part of the instruction came with this warning:  "you may freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden~except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  If you eat it's fruit, you are sure to die."  Several important thoughts come immediately to mind with this account of the garden, God and the man:  God provides for the man, he is loving and caring and the offering is the enjoyment of beautiful surroundings and plentiful fruit to eat; God teaches the man what he is meant to do with his time and what is safe and what can cause harm, including death;  man is clearly free to choose...he is informed of consequence, the cause and effect of his actions.  The biggest message here is that God wants relationship with the man, not with a puppet man, but with one that would choose to honour Him, mans Creator and clay crafter. God gives, warns, and than says it's your choice...this remains an eternal Truth.  Our greatest gift, after life, is the freedom to choose~we make this gift a blessing or a curse in our own lives and in the lives of others. Until next time, in The Bible.