You remember the story I hope that you do
Of God who created, everything, everyone even you
When the God who spoke created, He created it good
& mankind could enjoy it just as he should
But the problem with people that you’ll soon come to see
Is that no one is good, not you, no not even me
Who exactly is ‘good’ that’s an important question
Answering that is life’s most important lesson
Give me a rule & I’m sure to break it
If it looks good to my eyes then I’m sure to take it
We see this in life as we fight & we thieve
& we see it in the beginning with God’s Adam & Eve
“All that I’ve made is given to you freely
Every fruit, every veg, it’s yours, the lot, really
But you mustn't eat the fruit from that one seed
No rules but that one.” the Lord God decreed
& so they enjoyed it the world they’d been given
Living with God on earth as in heaven
They ate & they drank & were never in need
Living life as they ought, how the Lord God decreed
Except until one day when a foe not a friend
Came to whisper his lies & God’s laws to amend
"Really? He said that, he outlawed that seed
Are you sure you heard him right, what the Lord God decreed
Did He really say that? In God can you trust
Restricting your freedoms, He treats you like dust
A God who denies you puts me at unease
Take a moment & think what the Lord God really decrees
He knows you’ll be like Him when you eat from that tree
The fruit He’s forbidden will help you to see. Knowledge of ‘good’ & what’s ‘evil’ proceeds
That’s why He stops you, the Lord God in decrees.”
Grasp your own destiny, take life by the horns
Eat from that tree, look there's no thorns
The fruit looks so tasty & ripe from that seed
Eat it now both of you that’s my decree”
The serpent had tricked them, they bought all his lies
Following him not God looked best in their eyes
Eve took it & ate & then gave it to Adam
& he ate it & enjoyed it but at once a great chasm
A divide had appeared, not one you could see
Between Adam & God & His beautiful Eve
God came to greet them & He noticed their deed
At once His heart sank, they’d broken His decree
“Not me, Blame her, she’s the one who led me astray”
“Not me either, the serpents the one who made us his prey”
“He asked if you loved us then why you decreed?
What was so terribly wonderful about that seed
& now we know it’s not the fruit that’s the problem
It’s our hearts, not the rules, our inability to follow the
Naked we stand here, ashamed rule breakers
Rebelers against you who loved us & made us"
They were right of course when they surveyed the scene
Everything, all creation had somehow lost its sheen
God hadn’t come to dwell as before
He’d come to judge them for breaking His law
The verdict was labour, hard labour at that
For the man the kind that breaks your back
For the woman in childbirth she’d know her sentence
& death to all people, each one of their descendants
But God wasn’t happy to simply hand out that verdict
A promise came also, so sweet you should’ve heard it
“A rescue will come to you both from her seed”
A rescue how wonderful, what the Lord God decreed!
“It won't be pretty what He’ll have to do
To live & to die before making things new
But I promise to you, to the creatures I love
We can be together again if you trust in His blood”
“Who is Good?” Not Adam, not Eve
My guess is that it isn’t you either, I’m certain not me
Only one was good & you know Him as Jesus
He came from the Father to save us, to free us
It was love in the beginning & love in the end
Love that created & love that repaired
“God Is Love.” I’m sure you’ve heard
But that Love is seen in the incarnate WORD
Jesus it was who spoke the creation
Jesus it was who gave live through oration
Jesus it was who banished from Eden
Jesus it was who promised to save them
Jesus it was who took on our flesh
Jesus it was who died our death
Jesus it was & Jesus it is
It’s always been Jesus, everything is His
Jesus it was, that promised seed
He’s what’s good, just as the Lord God decreed
