When parents tell their small children, "No, no! Don't touch the stove. You'll get burned!" it comes from their love and protective concern. They are not saying, "Don't touch the stove because if you do I will punish you by burning you." That's ridiculous and we never would assume otherwise.
How strange that we judge the commands of God from a different point of view. "...you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die." (Gen. 2:16).
This was not the rash threat of an angry, hard-to-please God; this was the plea of a loving Father who knows what is best for us. His warnings are to protect us, not to spoil our fun or look for reasons to be mad at us.
No command of God is unkind or irrational--although, we sometimes judge them to be. Each expressed command of God was carefully designed to be a blessing to our lives if we would but obey.
Psalm 33:5
The Lord loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of his unfailing love.
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