Mankind fell.
Rather than
Heeding God's warning,
Adam and Eve chose
Themselves -
Their desires -
Their will -
Over God's.
In the full Light
Of God's Glory
They made this decision.
The consequences
Were disastrous.
Sin and
Death and
Decay
Were introduced
Into the world.
The ground was cursed
To bear thorns
Beneath Adam's touch.
The fugitives were forced
From Eden, barred by the
Cherubim and the Flaming Sword.
Adam and Eve lost communion
With El-Shaddai.
We have been reeling
From the aftershocks
Ever since.
But there is another Garden,
Holy ground where
The mystery of redemption
Began to undo
The damage we had done.
In Gethsemane,
Christ chose His Father's Work
At the expense of
His Own Life.
He wrestled with his desires,
And ultimately subjugated them
To the Will of the Father.
He saw the Big Picture:
The Father's Will...
The Father's Glory.
He knew that the only way
We had a chance
Of standing before God
Was though His Sacrifice.
The heritage of sin-death
Started unraveling that night
In the Garden of Gethsemane.
In the dark night of His Soul,
Facing the astonishing separation
From the Father,
Jesus Christ chose His Father
Over himself.
The decision to eat the apple
Was undone with the utterance
"Not my will, but thine, be done."
The ground that God had cursed
To bring forth thorns
Was redeemed by
The Crown of Thorns
On the Anointed's Head.
The Cross
On which He hung,
Accursed and cut off,
Was the means of becoming
The new Tree of Life.
He passed beneath the Flaming Sword.
The Veil of the Temple
Was torn in two,
A symbol of the Kingdom
Miraculously within arm's reach
For God's People.
We now live
Within that eternal Hope.
Eden's damage
Has been undone.
The world has already begun
The process of being reconciled
To The Almighty.
Everything else that happens moving forward?...
Eden and Gethsemane
Co-exist side-by-side.
Our journeys have become a matter
Of whichever Garden
We choose to stroll in...
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