GRAVES INTO GARDENS

Isaiah 43:19
Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?
I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. 
 
 
We chose the grave over the garden.
 
We chose creation over the creator.
 
We chose death over eternity.
 
We chose the world over paradise.
 
We were forced out of the Garden,
 
God’s perfect creation utterly obliterated by our pride.
 
And the reward to biggest mistake in history,
 
d e a t h . 
 
 
But just as death came to all men through the sin of one man,
 
Life came to all men through the death of the Son of God.
 
 
Behold, He is doing a new thing.
 
How do you not perceive it?
 
He chose the grave over the garden
 
So that we could have the garden on the other side of the grave.
 
He chose to live a life like us,
 
So that we could live in eternity like Him.
 
Jesus put the sins of the world on himself,
 
So that we could put His righteousness on us.
 
Jesus, utterly obliterated by creation.
 
But the reward for biggest sacrifice in history,
 
l I f e.
 
 
 
We chose the grave over the garden.
 
But He chose the grave so that we could have the garden.
 
Because He went to the grave,
 
He now turns graves into gardens.
 
desserts into rivers,
 
Hearts of stones into hearts of flesh,
 
Our mess into our message,
 
And brings the death to life.
 
He made a way where there was no way.
 
He is the way.