The Wall

 

God walked with the man and woman in the garden.  He knew their stride, the way they moved.  He knew their strengths and limitations and they knew Him.  They felt him there. They heard Him.  He was close. They were His children. They were held in the arms of their Father.  They were family.

But as they grew familiar with life they decided they didn’t need His direction and they didn’t necessarily want Him to know them.  They wanted to walk alone.

They left Him of their own free will.  They weren’t forced away from home.  They built a wall that would stand between them and home – between them and their Father, their Creator so they left Home behind the wall they had erected.

God couldn’t live inside that wall.  It wasn’t His wall, so He wouldn’t climb it or tear it down.  He told His children they were to leave the freedom of the garden.  He would no longer be right there in their sight – because of the wall they had built.  

But He also promised that someday, when “The fullness of time” had come, He would send a carpenter to carry that wall away. 

That carpenter would be the Son of God, and of His own free will, in His humanity, He would be the perfect one to destroy the wall

The carpenter would walk with mankind.  He would feel their humanness.  He would know of their desire to live with the wall.  He would live as a man, but only as God had originally planned for them to live.  The carpenter would live as a clear unblemished, see-through man, and that would remind them of the goodness they had shut out with the wall.  And they would then see the Father, once again.

And it happened!  When the fullness of time had come – it happened.

God sent His Son (fully divine), made of a woman (fully human.) 

He sent His own Son to tear down that wall.  The Son pulled the wall down on himself.  He chose to take that wall on his own shoulders, and it killed Him.  That wall made of the bricks of sin and self we humans want to love, or use, or keep, again and again. 

Those bricks that men love killed the Son - the Rescuer, the perfect One.

But the wall doesn’t need to separate men from God any longer.  Man can stop building because Jesus has already torn that wall down brick by brick. 

If we come back home to our Father, we can walk with Him in the garden again.  And, even though the Son, the carpenter, gave His life to destroy the wall, that was not the end. 

He rose again.  He not only overcame the wall of sin, but He overcame the death that was the result of that sin, the result of man walking away from God’s presence.

Again, God walks with His people, the children who understand His love and His compassion and His willingness to welcome them home – if only they look up and take a step toward his welcoming arms.

Love Diane