According to
God’s plan
Why not
let’s take a trip
Through this
beautiful land.
Here’s a
garden fresh and new –
A place of
much, much fame.
Here’s the
birthplace of all mankind
And Eden is
its name.
The first
thing that we see
Is a man
that God called Adam.
He was much
like you and me.
In God’s own
image Adam was made –
He was the
very first man.
He was
patterned after God Himself
And made by
God’s own hand.
As we travel
farther along
What else do
we see?
Why there’s
mountains, rivers, valleys,
And oh yes,
a very special tree.
The Tree of
Knowledge was its name
And its
beauty was not hidden.
Adam was
allowed to look at it
But to eat
its fruit was forbidden.
Of all the
jobs that Adam did,
He did one
very, very well.
He named
every single animal
From the
antelope to the whale.
Rabbits were
called rabbits
And birds
were called birds.
He named
every creature
With such
appropriate words.
One day Adam
looked around
And to his
surprise he saw
That every
animal had a mate
Almost as if
it were law.
This made
Adam very sad,
His joy just
disappeared.
Here he was
without a mate
And loneliness
now he feared.
When God saw
Adam in such a state
He devised a
wonderful plan.
He decided
right then and there
To make
woman to go with man.
He caused
Adam to fall asleep
So deep as
not to wake.
Then he
gently reached inside
Because a
rib he did take.
So there lay
Adam still asleep,
And this
he’d ne’er believe –
From his
missing rib God made
A woman He
named Eve.
Adam was
happy and so was Eve –
What a lucky
pair,
To live in a
wonderful place like this –
Nothing but
happiness there.
Then one day
Evil came
In the form
of a snake.
His name was
Satan, a sinful one
And problems
he did make.
He tempted
Eve up in a tree
To do what
she should not.
Forbidden
fruit she then did eat
And
trouble’s what she got.
She told
Adam to take a bite
And yes that’s
what he did.
And then
they knew they both had sinned
And quickly
from God they hid.
So mad was
God on that day
He decided
to punish them.
So out of
the garden He made them go
For not
obeying Him.
Poor Adam,
poor Eve, what a shame –
Now they’re
all alone.
Happiness
was once all theirs
But for sin
it’s now all gone.
And what
about God, how’d He feel –
Of course He
was so sad.
It hurt Him
too to punish them
For doing
the wrong they had.
From that
day on, God promised us
That He
would save mankind
And we
should thank Him everyday
That He did
not change His mind.
He sent His
son, Jesus Chris
Who died up
on the cross.
He loved Him
yes, but loves us too
And for this
He suffered the loss.
So when we
sin remember this –
Forgiveness
has a price,
But it was paid
long ago
On a cross
by Jesus Christ.
