Dear Friend,
If life were truly a mixture of good and evil, could we ever be wholehearted in our gratefulness to our creator? There’d always be something holding us back—a whispering that God has allowed for imperfection, lack, vulnerability to harm, that He’s only giving us some good.
That dispiriting view can help explain why Adam and Eve, in the biblical account, hid from God after they ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. All it gave them was a sense that they were far from “very good,” as God defines us earlier in Genesis. And they felt, not reverence, but fear and shame in the presence of their Maker.
