losing consciousness

Losing consciousness

Genesis 2:17: but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.

Adam and Even eventually eat the fruit of knowledge and their eyes were suddenly opened, like what serpent told them, that they suddenly realized that they are naked. They were ashamed of being naked and used leaves to cover themselves. Surprisingly, after eating, they didn’t die, whereas the knowledge of good and evil and many consciousness emerged. Did God lie to them while the serpent said the truth? Yes, to certain extent. Nay, from different angle.
As soon as God create man, he blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth." (Genesis 1: 28) God doesn’t use ‘be fruitful’ instead of ‘become fruitful’. Yes, we have had our living purpose and we are born fruitful and multiplied. I n God’s eyes, we are qualified to rule, to excel, to succeed naturally. However, after our ancestors—Adam and Eve—ate the fruit, we become self-conscious. We feel shame, rejected, fear and care too much what other think of us, like Adam and Eve, they are conscious of others’ thought and feel shame of being naked.
My fellow friends, have you ever thought of the life in which we needn’t care about others’ opinion? Will you live a very happy and fulfilled life? We dare not reach out to make friends and express ourselves, being afraid of rejection; we are forced to follow the most and reluctantly stand out, being afraid of shame; we dare not try new things and act as ourselves, intending to avoid fear; Whenever encounter problems, we finger point others, shifting responsibility. Fear, Shame, Rejection and shifting responsibility rise with self-consciousness when we are other-opinion orientated. And these are the obstacle in the road of success.
What can we do? Cast all the Fear, Shame, Rejection and Shifting responsibility to God, to Jesus. Jesus is rejected, so we will never be rejected again. Jesus bear the shame, fear for us, we needn’t care others opinion too much. We are born fruitful and successful. Don’t feel inferiority, because you are perfect in god’s eyes; you need not be worried about your appearance any more; you are set free by Jesus. Follow God’s Law, get protection from God and believe in God and Jesus. When you are tested you grow. Only if we use the blade of God to blow down the tree of self-consciousness and use lopper of Jesus to cut down the branches of fear, shame, rejection and shifting responsibility, can be bear the most fruit in our life dwelling in Christ. We are set free by following and believe in Jesus. You believe in God, God also believes in you that you are a success.