Prayer: Lord, help us to know good and evil and to always choose good. Amen Reading: Genesis 3:1-7 (Click to read text) Stop and GROW: After reading the text, discuss/ponder the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Book of Faith questions, which are part of Camp Mount Luther's GROW Time with campers. QUESTION 1: What scares, confuses, challenges, or doesn’t make sense to me in this text? QUESTION 2: What delights me in this text or is my favorite part of the story? QUESTION 3: What stories or memories does this text stir in me? QUESTION 4: What is God up to in this text? Reflection: “You will be like God, knowing good and evil.” I must be honest. I’ve never really been able to figure that one out. The best I can figure is that God knows good and evil when we don’t. I’m not sure. But I do know that generally we can tell the tell the difference between good and evil. Generally, that is. Sometimes we get into situations when it is difficult to determine the difference. And sometimes the snake in us convinces us that the evil is good. And we choose evil thinking it will be o.k. This time anyhow. And in the end God forgives us when we make the wrong choice. But that doesn’t justify or give us permission to choose evil. We really do need to try to know and choose good. It’s Shrove Tuesday. Have a donut yet today? Tomorrow Lent begins—Ash Wednesday. Not a bad time to remind ourselves to make a good effort to always take the time and effort to figure out what the good is. And then to choose good. --Jim Bricker
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