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Ntwadumela (In-twy-do-may-la) means, “He Who Greets With Fire. With the various biblical examples of God in the Old and New Testaments manifesting his presence as fire, poet Ntwadumela simply means the poet who greets with the presence of God. As a Christian poet I am striving to express God to people, people to God, and our view of God to each other. It is my belief that the enemy of all souls has organized and specific strategies for deceiving and destroying humans. A high priority in these strategies is the dividing of us from each other, the fostering of hate in the world and the belief that if you and I don't agree that somehow means I don't have to love you. It is my desire to to shed light on these strategies and help us all to know God the more.

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Adam And Eve And The Fall of Relationship


-Adam and Eve are given to us as the first examples of the marriage relationship. God made man and woman together as one flesh. One was not separate from the other any more than the right side of a person’s body is separate from the left. Genesis 2:21-25 implies this close and tender relationship. They loved each other and belonged to each other.

-In Genesis chapter three we see the fall of this relationship. The enemy was able to drive a wedge between the man and the woman by exploiting and extending their love for each other beyond its parameters. Whenever the love of a man and woman go beyond the word of God it ceases to be love and is now a tool of the enemy. God told Adam not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Eve was then created and we have no indication that God repeated this command for Eves benefit, for to do so would assume a separation that did not exist. If God told Adam a thing Eve was so much a part of him how could he not share it with her? Adam and Eve were so intimate that nothing that the one had would be kept from the other, including the word of God. Adam shared with his wife the word of God and Eve accepted it from him until she was deceived.

-When Eve became convinced that eating from the tree was good the emotions she had for her husband compelled her to share it with him, and the emotions that Adam had for his wife compelled him to receive from her hand. The emotions that they had for each other became a tool of the enemy as soon as it moved outside the boundaries of the love of God and word of God. Many relationships are not ruled by love but only emotions separate from the love of God. If God is not honored then love is not honored, if God is not present then love is not present for God is Love. The hardest thing for a marriage or any other relationship to survive is when one or both partner’s emotional feelings for each other no longer proceed from God's love. These emotions then become a tool of the enemy.

Next week: AND SO IT GOES

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