GOD'S QUESTION

In the Garden of Eden
Where wrong and right do exists
Set two trees of beauty...choice
But only one, must man resist

One has already been chosen
Giving humanity, this world of sin
So, choosing the other
Is where our journey begins

We all know the story
Pride tells us to judge and fear
But if right and wrong existed
It was difference that brought it here

Why would He create difference
If He wanted choice to be SAME
He, the Lamb, slain 
Before the foundation of our Earth was lain

Did He intend us to fail
That is too cruel for a loving father
Even worse, to place blame of sin
On a deceived, very hungry, daughter

~I have forgotten myself...the Other Tree~

It must have been hideous
Undesirable at best
To be so drawn to the other
And leave "Eternal Life" to rest

The choice was never about the trees
But His heart wanting to know
Intention geared toward service
Or a heart devoted to flow

The demand for outcome
Made a casing of skin
Held in the bondage of fear
To keep love hidden within

What was so repulsive about LIFE
I really want to give them an out
What on the Earth
Could bring them to coddle...doubt

.............................against LOVE..................

Feelings and Reason laid down truth
Belief embraced the fruit of fear
The Lamb laid bare, the tree
As LOVE drew us near

Listen...can you hear....His heart
It beats to wrap humanity in LOVE without fear
When we choose the other tree...His heart, not His mind
We leave fear and doubt behind, and flow with LOVE , touching lives and drying tears

Can God have a question
As a parent, I, myself, always want to know
When my sons are grown and gone
Will they return to LOVE, wanting to relate, rather than show

  ....accomplishments...


Written by Trudy Schrader on 10-03-2016

Note: Just got through reading Ted Dekker's book, "A.D. 33," where he proclaims that you can not see your true identity in Christ until all other identities have been surrendered. This really struck me, because I have made my whole life about being anyone other than who I am. The surrendering of the one tree...the notion that one can do right and wrong (legalism), in order to see the Eternal Life (Love without fear) offered by the other, means giving up the belief that I can be anyone other than who I am. Impossible, until Jesus won my heart, all of it, fair and square. Now, there is no one I want to be, but me.