"An Occasion for Acting"

"For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second." (Hebrews 8:7 KJV) 

  "When he came to the village of Nazareth, his boyhood home, he went as usual to the synagogue on the Sabbath and stood up to read the Scriptures. The scroll of Isaiah the prophet was handed to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where this was written: "The Spirit of the LORD is upon me, for he has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released, that the blind will see, that the oppressed will be set free, and that the time of the LORD'S favor has come." He rolled up the scroll, handed it back to the attendant, and sat down. All eyes in the synagogue looked at him intently. Then he began to speak to them, "The Scripture you've just heard has been fulfilled this very day."" (Luke 4:16-21 NLT)

 As there are several variations to explain the reason God just didn't make man to obey and love Him, as if mankind was programed to follow His every command; then there wouldn't have been any law needed to show us how we love ourselves more, wanting to do what we want, not what God says to do. But God did not want robots that obey without choice; He wanted mankind to obey Him because they love Him, and, knowing full well that He loves them more!  

 There are several ways we can see this is the plan from the very beginning. As I have said before, God placed that forbidden tree in the middle of the Garden for a specific reason; and then He told Adam, 'You can eat from every tree, but that one; the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.' As of before the day that he took of that fruit, he technically did know what evil was; supposably, that is! 

 Whether or not you can believe it, God already knew that Adam was going to eat of that forbidden fruit, because that is why it was even there to begin with. Why else, but to give Adam something to not eat, is something, so tempting to him, in the middle of the whole Garden? 

 God had a plan, before He even created the earth, that there was only one way to make man in His image, and that requires love! There had to be more than just a garden and living, to cause man to fall in love, wholeheartedly, with his Creator; and that was for God to do something so radical, that it would cause mankind to fall deeply in love with Him!

 Why was that first covenant not faultless? Because we all sin...

"Why then was the law given? It was given alongside the promise to show people their sins. But the law was designed to last only until the coming of the child who was promised. God gave his law through angels to Moses, who was the mediator between God and the people. Now a mediator is helpful if more than one party must reach an agreement. But God, who is one, did not use a mediator when he gave his promise to Abraham. Is there a conflict, then, between God's law and God's promises? Absolutely not! If the law could give us new life, we could be made right with God by obeying it. But the Scriptures declare that we are all prisoners of sin, so we receive God's promise of freedom only by believing in Jesus Christ."