A direct rebuke to evolution is the law of the wilderness. The law of the wilderness says that things left alone don’t evolve for the better, they get worse and eventually return to their original state. A garden is a good example. If you constantly tend the garden by rototilling the soil, pulling the weeds, fertilizing and watering the plants you will have a fruitful garden that will reflect the care of the gardener. By contrast if you don’t tend to the garden at all eventually it will return to its original state, wilderness. God knew that too. Adam’s job was to tend the garden. Genesis 2:15 says, “The LordGod took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.”
Another example is your home. If you maintain your home through upkeep and repair, your home will look wonderful for many years (and sell for more when the time comes). By contrast if you do nothing to your home to maintain it, it will become a trash home and eventually collapse. Left in that state for decades it will return to the wilderness.
What does the law of the wilderness have to do with our relationships and spiritual lives? Everything! If we maintain our relationships by prioritizing them through time and attention they will flourish. If we do not, those relationships will deteriorate to the point of where we become strangers. It’s the law of the wilderness. We were strangers in the beginning of the relationship and left untended we will revert to being strangers again. This is especially tragic if the relationship is a marriage. Couples marry because they love one another and want to build a life together. In the beginning they prioritize one another and sow into the relationship but if they stop prioritizing one another, become distracted, or selfish, the relationship will suffer. Soon, like an untended plant, the marriage will begin to wither and, unless the death spiral is stopped, the couple will become strangers living under the same roof. The law of the wilderness took its toll.
You can readily see how the law of the wilderness applies to our spiritual lives. If we don’t tend to our spiritual lives by reading God’s Word, worshiping Him, praying to Him, serving Him, sacrificing for Him, the law of the wilderness will creep in. We will find ourselves powerless and directionless in life and eventually return to our unsaved state with its unsaved habits. Are we then lost and need to be saved again? No, but we become carnal and think and act like the unsaved as our hearts grow barren, dry, and callous to spiritual things.
Can the law of the wilderness be reversed? Absolutely! Tend the garden of your heart! Tend the garden of your marriage! It takes time and attention but the fruit of the garden is worth the effort!
Sowing seed, pulling weeds,
Irv