The Short History of Humanity
“The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.” (Genesis 2:8)
“Joseph died…and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.” (Genesis 5:26)
The book of Genesis gives us the glorious beginning and the sad ending of humanity. God made him holy and happy, and put him in a beautiful garden. Man made himself a sinner, and sin put him in a coffin.
God formed man of the dust of the earth, and breathed unto his nostrils the breath of life (Genesis 2:7), sin took the breath away, and put man back into the ground from whence he came – “the wages of sin is death.”
Man had paradise, the very presence of God. Of all the earth it was the choice place for man. A place near to God’s heart; a place of God’s own planting – ‘A garden in Eden.’ Sin entered and sent man into a foreign contrary – a strange country, away from God.
God made us good, sin made us sinners. We’re not what we once were friends of God, alive and lively; now strangers and foreigners. As dead spiritually as Joseph was physically.
But thank God, He has not left us to ourselves to decay without hope. God’s own dear Son left the true paradise, heaven itself, and came to this foreign world and paid the dreadful price for sin – laid in a tomb, but now is risen and ascended to paradise again. God puts us in Him, the source of eternal life and everlasting righteousness – paradise restored!
B. Crabtree
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