The Stumbling Stone

Romans 9:19-33 Man has always found God offensive. Offensive, might not be the right word. However, we just do not get along with God. For example, what was so hard about not eating the fruit in the Garden? I mean, really, out of all the different fruit available, would it have been so hard to just leave one of the varieties alone? Okay, let’s think about this for just a minute. God made the Garden. God planted the Garden. Therefore, it was His garden to do with as He pleased. So, He decided to give it to the man and the woman with only one tiny condition attached. Oh, and by the way, He also made the man and the woman; so, they were technically His as well. Anyway, God decided to give them the Garden with His condition. That condition was a stumbling stone, a rock of offense. Not literally! I do not mean the fruit was a stone. I mean that the man and the woman tripped over this one tiny condition God had set on their ownership of the Garden. They were “of