Film Friday In the film Cellar Door, John and Sera are given a beautiful house free, just so long as they promise to never open the cellar door. This is fine at first but after a while the temptation to explore begins to grow. Whether or not there is anything down there is perhaps not the point, the precarious thing here is the promise made, the fragile trust to not open the door.
This reminded me so much of the Garden of Eden and the beautiful home given to Adam and Eve, just so long as they didn’t reach for the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. God is the one with the depth of understanding to carry the weight of the knowledge of good and evil, it’s too much for us, but what also got lost there, was the perfect trust between people and their creator. Thankfully the story does not end there.
In Exodus 34 v 5 & 6, when God appears to Moses in a cloud, he describes himself as gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and full of lovingkindness. And this was what Jesus embodied when he came to restore that fractured relationship between us and God. We often reach for trees that are beyond us, we often break that fragile trust again, but in Jesus we can come back to God every time and rediscover his compassion, grace and endless lovingkindness.
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