Micro Studies and PopCorn Verses Part 2

I shared that little bit down below with a customer at the store a couple of days ago and she looked at me and tears welled up in her eyes and she shook her head, and said that that verse showed pre planning. I agreed, that idea had been running around inside my skull too. I mean I've heard pastors say for years that "before the foundations of the earth were laid, God had a plan" and usually right after that if I'm going to be 100% honest here, my mind wandered off somewhere else. After all, I knew the story. I could recite it with them, in fact I taught it to kids for years.

I've gotten too familiar with the idea I think, of His pre-planning things. I've heard it so much that I've become numb to the idea. But, the idea came today about this popcorn passage, what if the pre-planning there wasn't so much about knowing what decisions Adam and Eve would make in the garden (sinning, turning away from Him, wanting to be gods themselves and not needing Him at all) but about wanting to communicate with those He had lost. He didn't need to put the stars in the heavens and have their first duty be to be heralds of His rescue plan (for that's what signs are I believe, things to tell us what is coming) He could have left Adam and Eve bereft. He could have walked away and said "You had your chance, sorry Charlie, game's over." He had every right to abandon those who walked out on Him, after all we'd covered ourselves in the one thing that He can not abide.

But He didn't.

The Lord knew what choices would be made in the garden, but he created the decision makers anyway.

The Lord knew what would happen in that garden if He showed Himself to those that dwelled there, and He came anyway.

And before either of those things, He wrote a message for them in the heavens, which said:

"I love you. I miss you. Don't be afraid, I'm going to rescue you."