Eternal was always the plan.

I don’t know how I missed it all these years.

I think I caught a glimpse of it when someone very closed to me passed away; I think I felt that death as not right. Death wasn’t natural, it simply couldn’t be.

Yet I still missed it. 

I still did not understand that eternal life was always part of the plan. It wasn’t an after thought. It wasn’t something God came up with after we fell away. It was always what he intended.

Genesis 2:8-9, 15-17:

Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. And the Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground–trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. And the Lord God commanded the man, “you are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.”

Did you catch it? 

I’ve missed it for years. For some reason, I always thought the tree of eternal life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil were equally off limits, but they weren’t. The only thing God asked us to stay away from was this one tree which would expose to evil and brokenness.

Eternal life was on a tree waiting for us to pick it, and we turned away.

We chose instead our own wisdom, brokeness, shame and destruction. We chose to live for ourselves and to seek our own glory. We chose death.

 Even now, our generation carries on this legacy; once agian eternal life hung on a tree for us and all we have to do is pick it.

All we have to do is chose Jesus.

So what are you waiting for?