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Excerpt from
FOUNDATION
TO ALL FREEDOM
 Silently He hovered over
a formless empty world, as a painter would stand before a blank piece of
canvas. He focused all wisdom and creativity, opened His mouth and
birthed an explosion of matter and energy.
Let there be light,
echoed throughout the universe, bathing all it touched in brilliant
color. God poured Himself out. When finished, He looked over His labor
of love. With joy He signed his name and decreed, all that I have
made is very good!
God looked within,
reflected upon His own character, and created man in His own image (Gen
1:27). Bending down on hands and knees, He picked up handfuls of dust
and meticulously formed a head, arms and legs. With foreknowledge of the
joy and suffering this act would bring, God pressed His lips against man’s
and breathed into its lungs the Spirit of Life.
The first thing Adam knew
were the eternal eyes of his Maker. His Provider who would nourish him
spiritually and physically. Creating a garden with trees bearing lush
fruit, God said, I give you every seed–bearing plant on the face of
the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will
be yours for food (Gen. 1:29). The breath of the living God
sustained in Adam by living food. A glorious world, unmarred with
sickness, disease and death.
Satan watched in horror
as the black universe was lit up with the brightness of God’s
perfection. In spite of the dark pride in his heart, he bowed his head,
humbled by the display of his Enemy’s raw power. Suns and planets
bursting into brilliant light all around him. Light devouring the
darkness.
Envy consumed him. Satan
wants to be God. Everything he does springs from that desire. He hated
the beauty and the majesty of what God had made, especially man and
woman, for they were created in the image of his Enemy.
And so began the ancient
drama. Adam and Eve making the fatal mistake of eating from the hand of
their enemy. Satan became man’s new Master and Provider. A mastership
that could not be broken except by the death of the Painter’s Son.
Today Satan has an agenda
for mankind's absolute domination. One look at this world and it would
appear that he has achieved his goal. Our hospitals are filled with
people in pain and suffering. Billions of dollars are spent in search
for answers to rampant health problems plaguing the planet. Yet disease
marches on at an alarming rate. Food is spiked with poisonous
preservatives and additives. Farmers forced to be competitive under
world–economic pressures, load the soil with chemical fertilizers,
herbicides, and pesticides. God appointed man to be steward of creation.
Man has bitterly failed.
God created food to be a
blessing not a curse; to heal not to destroy; to bring health not
sickness.
Remnants of Eden can be
still be found buried within the earth. The humble carrot displays the
character of God. Beta–carotene, vitamin C, folic acid, calcium,
phosphorous, potassium, enzymes, and a wealth of trace minerals. All
insuring a body vibrant with life. The nutritiousness of food was no
accident, but by grand design. A design that has been marred by death.
The New Eden
Welcome to the Valley of the
Shadow of Death. There was a time when this valley was lush with
green. The warm summer breezes saturated with the fragrance of flowers
that blanketed the hills. Vivid purples, blues and yellows—a sea of
delicate color lit up by a noonday sun. A babbling clear stream where
animals would come and drink. A garden paradise—Eden.
This beauty has been
traded for monoliths of human achievement. Lifeless rock. Babylon.
And our path must enter into her belly. Remnants of Eden can still be
found forcing its way though the cracks in the pavement. Those small
bits of green will remind us as we walk this dismal path. Remind us of
hope. Of a day to come. But for now, we shall travel though sickness,
disease, mucus, cancer, toxins, pollution, addiction, moral decay,
media, mental illness, transfatty acids, sexual perversion, greed and
technology. A bleak desolate land.
How can we live in such a
place and be untouched? He shall guide our path to the answer. We have
not been left alone. We have been equipped with instruments of
protection and power. Even though we walk through the Valley of the
Shadow of Death, we shall fear no evil. For He is with us. A table of
provision has been prepared for us in the presence of our Enemy. Surely
goodness and mercy will follow us all the days of our lives. And one day
when He comes, we will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
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