Part Two

Butterfly's are easily controlled by the wind (Jn:3:8). They are light - more wings than flesh! They come and go as the wind directs them, using their wings more to stay aloft than to fight the wind. So are believers who walk (and fly) in the Spirit - when we die to our own will, we become Holy because it is never His will for us to sin. So it's only when we die to our own will that we can live for the Father's will. In Gethsemane, Jesus crucified his will. It then became easy to allow his body to be crucified. When we allow our will's to be crucified, it is easy then to allow our bodies to be led by him, rather than by ourselves, to go and do and say whatever pleases him, whatever the Father's will is for us on any given day. Jesus testified he only did what he saw his father doing and he only said what he heard his father saying (Jn:5:19) Indeed, he testified in Jn:10:17 that the Father loved him because he laid down his life (his will).
The Tree of knowledge of good and evil represents man's will exalted over God's simply because God said not to eat of it and man, at Satan's urging, chose to exalt his will over God's. The Tree of Life represents God's will exalted over man's. Choose you this day - life or death? Spirit or flesh? Your will or God's? Will you choose a religious form of Christianity centered on the tree of knowledge, on the pursuit and consumption of an endless supply of knowledge? Or will you choose a Christianity centered around Christ himself, our tree of eternal life, who we engage and commune with within our hearts? Will you be a doer or a hearer only? A follower of Christ in mind only and not in heart is a caterpillar - they have a form of godliness but deny the power thereof (to transform them). They honor God with their lips (they sing songs to Him or about him, they sit, and listen to endless sermons) but their hearts are far from him. Notice the order here - Love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. Spirit, soul, than body. Heart first, always, then mind. Religious, Babylonian, apostate Christianity is always mind only.
Engage God with your heart. Embrace him wholeheartedly, and become that butterfly believer he has invited you to be - live free! Unwrap, remove those grave cloths that stink of death, of your old, sinful lifestyle and join Jesus in unending fellowship - supping and drinking together with him and others like you at his table. Never hunger and thirst again! Be fully filled and satisfied. Say with me "He brought me to his banqueting house and his banner over me was love!" He wants to be your source of pleasure forevermore. Say "I will seek him whom my soul loveth". You well know, if you seek, you will find (Mt:7:7). His garden is full of his love for you, full of delights, full of delicious fruits. Invite him now into YOUR garden as well, say "let my beloved come into his garden and eat his pleasant fruits". Invite him to be as intimate with you as a lover would be. Let him know he is your source of pleasure, not any fleshly desire or lust. Say "My beloved is mine and I am his and I have kept myself for a time such as this. His coming is near as the dawn to my eyes, this longing of mine is soon satisfied. Come quickly, Lord Yehsua, says the Spirit, says the Bride, I'll not arise complete till you draw me to your side. My God in my heart is an all consuming fire, come quickly my beloved for it's you that I greatly desire".