17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return
Within and Without
Introduction:
I am going to try with feeble attempt to record what the Holy Ghost instructed me concerning the mindset of a Father and the mindset of a Mother that young people need to be enlightened too to understand the hearts of the Fathers. Many times children think that Father's are being negative and Mother's sometimes too demanding when it comes to purpose and destiny, one the ability to reach the other the ability to fulfill. There is a basic principle in scripture that we fail to understand when it comes to helping those you love reach their goals and for those who are reaching to understand the type of teaching each one brings. When we look at Genesis chapter four we find the edict that the LORD has given Adam and his wife Eve. Two positions that seem in opposition but are not juxtapose they are parallel. Looking at the concept of how each produces we find one pushing from within and the other pulling from without; the one conceiving through sorrow, the other receiving through pain (thorns and thistles from the sweat of his brow). just remember that the harvest is the most labor intensive of all the task, more difficult to reap then it is to sow. Climate and economy control the harvesting. Environment and resources are very important in harvesting a crop, but a Mother thinks she is all that is needed in most cases, but a father thinks from the perspective
we need this and more in case the ground doesn't yield it's fruit.
A mother instructs according to what she is able to conceive, teaching to push the conceivable out; at times this can seem encouraging making the child believe they can conceive anything as long as they can push hard enough. But it is the ability to endure pain that will mark a Mother's life. Pain has a nominal effect in that if one can endure they feel like they are that much better or greater.
In contrast, father's are always trying to create, grabbing the hoe he breaks the ground with hard stokes, tearing, ripping the dirt until he can plant the seed. Over time he watches the seed to see if their is a sprout and when one appears he knows he will harvest something, but still not sure what. Leaving it to it's self it finally becomes a beautiful plant that he grabs and it spikes his hand and fingers ever reminded that the ground is cursed because of him; it means that sometimes it won't produce anything nice. What one produces no matter how hard they work will be cursed when it disobeys. So a father instructs according to a cloud of sorrow will still follow a path to freedom and destiny. The day one sows roses he will reap thorns; the most beautiful and painful will forever be linked. So a Father doesn't get excited about cute little roses when he knows that their will also be a bush of thorns. A Mother instructs according to the seeds that she has within her and the Father corrects according to the ground fallow enough to produce. So a Mother sees it through implantation and A Father sees it through Tilling the ground. Implantation goes in easy and pushes out rough; Tilling wrestles and breaks tough work but can yield a peaceable fruit. A father knows that it will take hard work and still may not produce anything(cursed is the ground), A mother knows one must pushes hard but can not see not producing anything. Yet, the reality is that both may produce through sorrow and pain ---NOTHING.
IN SORROW
'Yagon' in the Hebrew means grief, sorrow, pain, suffering and it is mentioned several times in chapter four of Genesis. The edict of GOD on the progenitor's of creation- Everything that we do which is meaningful is going to hurt and produce only after we can endure the most severe pain of working and pushing through sorrow. Mother's under emphasize and Fathers over emphasize- the both are needed the child must learn to understand both methods and use them to reach their full potential. the one that can appreciate and understand both will maneuver through life---falling but always rising. I remember reading Philip Yancy 'Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People'. I was stepping over books that one of my Pastor's had left me,. a extensive library and boy was I like a kid in the candy store. So I get to this book that really made me think by the title. three hundred pages Ok, I can handle that. A Pastor who had helped people all his life, even volunteering at the hospital was dying of cancer. Why him Philip though and so did I, but in that chapter I got a understanding of the pain receptors in the body how they help warn against even greater disaster; the skins receptors help warn you that your hand is on the stove. The sorrow we received help remind us that it hurts disobeying GOD!!!!! ok, this is where you blame Adam and Eve? So you have never bitten from something forbidden? Stop it!!!!! Remember sorrow will always accompany forbidden fruit. So if we are ever to hear the applause of angels then we must learn to produce through sorrows.
Sorrow can be grief, sorrow in the mind, sorrow in the heart, sorrow in the soul, sorrow in the flesh, sometimes your thinking hurts and even the Holy Ghost can be grieved (sorrow of Spirit). We must learn to live through it and not bow to it. When sorrow becomes to severe there is only one recourse; hear the words of Hannah who was sorrowed that she couldn't produce a male child, for that matter she couldn't conceive at all.
And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the Lord
GOD IS THE ONLY PLACE AND THE ONLY PERSON THAT YOU CAN POUR OUT YOUR SPIRIT WHEN IT IS SORROWED AND HE WILL UNDERSTAND. Pain leaving your stomach in knots? Is your mind racing, and your heart pounding; you can't sleep, restless and no one to talk to that will understand? You are alone in your sorrow and that is something Israel tried hard not to leave a person alone in their grief; Ruth refused to leave Naomi, Eliphaz and Job's friends tried to stay with him in dust an ashes. But in this account of Hannah we find that she is misunderstood by the priest Eli, sounds familiar? The greatest sorrow you will face will leave you misunderstood by those that call themselves comforting you. In fact, they will only magnify you sorrows. Both Mother and Father echoes the pain that is produced from shallow friendships. Remember 'sorrows' was multiplied after cunning was allowed to beguile. So the road to fallow ground is with hard work and nay sayer's. Nehemiah wanted to rebuild the wall, but all around him where those that laughed and mocked, some even ready to attack; so not only did some have to place the bricks others had to wield the sword.
Sorrow can also be fear
The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestinia. When you are afraid of who and what is before you then you need to look at your walk with GOD. IF GOD is before you then who can be against you. the children of Israel was only farmers and brick makers but GOD made them a fierce adversary. One of the ways' you can tell that you are about to lose and be grieved is that your heart is not in it. A father will put the breaks on the campaign, but a Mother may still believe you can do it; now sometimes you won't get a second chance at a first impression.
It is the fear that we see some divergence a Father may try to avoid pain while a Mother will learn to push through it. though nor given parallel a child must learn to make them. He must push pass the fear and take advantages of his\her chances. When you have GOD on you side their is something clean about your dirty. Fear will always accompany any pursuit in life but don't allow it to take hold of you. As a man thinketh in his heart so does he become. So not only does It hurt it also is done while you are afraid. SO HOW DO WE GET RID OF THE FEAR? the bible instructs us that perfect love cast out fear---what does love have to do with it. Perfect love is the AGAPAO, which says under any condition I will follow GOD into battle, even against myself, because HE loves me unconditionally.
