In the beginning, God the Father made Adam just like himself. Adam lived in the Garden in blissful fellowship with the Father, the One who loved him. Adam knew that he was loved and therefore was free to love and be vulnerable in this blessed assurance. This was the Way of Life of peace, joy and perfect harmony of all things. The One who loved Adam cautioned him however, that if he came to believe in another way of life, that his existence would change for the worse.
In time, Adam began judging things as either good or evil, and life did change – his clarity of sight became confusion. He no longer saw the Father as the One who loved him but rather as one whom he could not trust. No longer could he be vulnerable but would have to fend for himself through the sweat of his brow. In this state, he could no longer live in fellowship and he found himself in a barren wasteland of fear and contradiction. Life for Adam had turned to death. This continued for a few thousand years.
Then, at the appointed time, the One who loved Adam sent his Son to the barren wasteland. Jesus, who was the Creator and of the same being as the Father, stepped into humanity as Adam was. Daily he was faced with the same confusion but responded, “No, I see what is true!” When those in authority asked him what he was doing there, he said, “I have come to restore your sight”. In their delusion and confusion however, they sentenced him to be crucified.
At one moment on the cross Jesus cried out, “Father, I know their confusion, forgive them." And then later in his pain and agony, “Father, where are you? I cannot see you!"
Within himself, Jesus confronted the confusion of Adam every moment of his life, he submitted to it and entered into it in his crucifixion and destroyed it in his death. Then three days later, he rose again...
Today, he says to you and me, “Come to me so that I can help you see the way that I see. I have restored the Garden to all. In the Garden, Adam saw my Father the same way as I have always seen my Father – as the One who loves me. In the Garden Adam saw himself the same way that I have always seen myself – as the One who is loved and is free to love. With this blessed assurance there is fellowship, peace, joy and perfect harmony. Come see."
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