J.M.J.
THE NEW GARDEN
AS THE FATHER CONCEIVED HIS PERFECT PLAN,
HE CREATED EDEN THEN BREATHED LIFE INTO MAN.
HE TOOK ADAM’S RIB AND THEN CHOSE TO CREATE
A WOMAN NAMED EVE TO BE ADAM’S MATE.
GOD PLANNED FOR THEM BOTH TO GROW IN HIS WILL,
AND ALL THAT WAS HIS, HE IN THEM WOULD INSTILL.
BUT GOD ALSO GAVE THEM THE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE
TO ABIDE BY HIS WILL OR THEIR OWN WILL TO USE.
AT THIS TIME THEY WERE ASKED JUST TO HEED ONE COMMAND,
NOT TO EAT OF ONE TREE THAT BORE FRUIT ON THIS LAND.
THE TEMPTATION FOR THEM BECAME MUCH TOO GREAT;
ENSNARED BY SATAN, OF THE FRUIT THEY BOTH ATE.
IF THE FRUIT THAT’S FORBIDDEN YOU CHOOSE ALSO TO EAT,
THEN THE JOURNEY OF ADAM YOU AGAIN WILL REPEAT.
AND THE GATES TO THE GARDEN WHICH GOD HAS PREPARED
WILL BE CLOSED TO THE ONES WHO AGAIN ARE ENSNARED.
BECAUSE ADAM AND EVE ATE THE FRUIT OF THE TREE,
THEY ALTERED GOD’S PLAN WHICH FOR THEM WAS TO BE.
YET, GOD’S PERFECT PLAN NEVER DID OR WILL CHANGE,
BUT YOUR PART IN HIS PLAN YOU CAN REARRANGE.
THE NEW GARDEN FOR ALL OF GOD’S CHILDREN AWAITS,
BUT IF YOU CHOOSE WHAT’S FORBIDDEN, YOU’LL NOT WALK THRU THESE GATES.
IF YOU DISOBEY WHAT GOD HAS DECREED,
THEN YOU WILL CONTINUE WHERE YOU CHOSE TO PROCEED.
“THY WILL BE DONE”
7-4-2000