The Garden of Eden

Now that the world is made

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.

As we step inside to look around

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.