STUFF

                                                    STUFF                                                                                                    .                   Trooper Wood 13 October 2015

Mankind was created in a garden without clothes or stuff.  All they needed was there; furnished for their enjoyment.  Then they were told “Don’t” and history has been mankind battling against that word, and their Creator, ever since.  “Eat whatever you want but DON’T EAT from this one tree.  The fruit is pretty but it is poison and will cause death.

Satan also had access to the garden and its bounty.  He had rebelled a long time before when he looked in the mirror and thought himself to lovely to be just a lieutenant .  That’s why God kicked him out of heaven.    Now Satan thought to get even by getting these new creations to mess up and disobey their Creator, God.  That is when they ate the fruit.

First thing they noted was they didn’t have clothes; nothing like that flashy apparel of Satan.  They gathered lovely leaves from the garden and fashioned their clothing: the first STUFF.  They had to leave the garden now; the place of plenty with every need already met.  In the world outside, they had to grow their grow food or kill living creatures for meat.  Tools were required to till the soil and weapons to kill for food or defend against some creatures; more STUFF. 

Anger and jealousy became a part of their life as the hunted and labored and their children found another use for their weapons: to kill anyone they disliked.  As this pattern grew, better weapons were needed; more STUFF.  The weather outside the garden was frightful and shelters were built and STUFF to make them comfortable inside.

The more STUFF we got, the more STUFF was needed.  It got to the point where we lived in our pursuit of STUFF.  It reached the point where our pursuit of STUFF stuffed our lives until we could not enjoy the STUFF we had for free when we were created and started this rebellion against “DON’T” and the gathering of STUFF.

This morning, at this moment, I sit here alone.  I’m surrounded by STUFF, but alone.

“DON’T” get so involved in pursuing and possessing STUFF that you forget how to live in the garden.  God prepared it for you ‘In The Beginning’.