My wife and I often visit old stately homes,most of them have beautiful
gardens,we like also visiting gardening centres,and of course we have a garden of our own.All these give us great pleasure,it is interesting that when God created Adam and Eve,he placed them in a garden,where they looked after it,and of course we all know what happen then,they disobeyed God,
and where excluded from that earthly paradise.John Milton wrote of Paradise lost.Yes we lost so much that awful day,and I was thinking, about this love for gardens,[Joseph Stalin loved gardening]which many of us have ,could it be that our love of gardens,goes back to the Paradise we lost,is there within all us a desire for that world we lost?.The fall of humanity effected everything, more than most of us realise,it effected the world the universe[Job 15v15],and worst still, it effected humanities relationship with God.We cannot return to that earthly Paradise,but there is hope,in the book of Revelation we read of a new heaven and a new earth[21v1].All who trust Jesus are new creations,and only they will will be part of that wonderful future,it really does depend on knowing Jesus as your Saviour,the one who is making all things new.[Revelation 21v5 ]
A prayer.
Dear God we rejoice that there is a wonderful future ,for all who trust Jesus
as Saviour,Amen.
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