The order of the Garden of Eden was destroyed by the event of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Since the moment that mankind, the creatures, wants to be God the creator, the order of the Garden of Eden was destroyed, and God and mankind couldn’t rest anymore. The sin which Adam and Eve committed resulted in the eternal punishment in hell for mankind. This broke God’s heart.
The rest of God, which was supposed to be kept holy, was broken. When human is proud, the rest of God is broken. The pride is deadly act that decides to destroy the rest of God and human
You should have in mind that pride and disobedience always work together. The pride is followed by disobedience. If you are proud, you think you don’t need to consider the words of God as the absolute order. You think you don’t have to keep it. Even those who say they believe in Jesus complain saying, “How can I live just like God’s word?”. They decided to disobey the word of God
God feels uncomfortable when the human who was created to be obedient to God becomes arrogant and disobeys God. You should know that the rest of God is broken as much as you disobey God. The rest of disobeying person is also broken. God gave us his word so that we will get out of pride and obey God by keeping our position according to the purpose of creation.
If you realized that you were used as an instrument of wickedness, you have to repent your sins and experience the collapse of your ego. Your self-esteem should be gone. In other words, your ego must be dead. The pride brings you to death after all. You think that being in a higher position, being great and smart will help you. But that will ruin you in the end. Your self should be gone and the Lord in you should be your master.
Pastor Seok-Jeon Yoon
Extracted from Yonsei Newspaper #710
