"THE SEED" // A POEM OUR PROBLEMS, THEIR ORIGINS AND GOD'S SOLUTION

Hiraeth Community Prayers

You remember the story I hope that you do

Of God who created, everything, everyone even you

When the God who spoke created, He created it good

& mankind could enjoy it just as he should

But the problem with people that you’ll soon come to see

Is that no one is good, not you, no not even me

Who exactly is ‘good’ that’s an important question

Answering that is life’s most important lesson

Give me a rule & I’m sure to break it

If it looks good to my eyes then I’m sure to take it

We see this in life as we fight & we thieve

& we see it in the beginning with God’s Adam & Eve

“All that I’ve made is given to you freely

Every fruit, every veg, it’s yours, the lot, really

But you mustn't eat the fruit from that one seed

No rules but that one.” the Lord God decreed

& so they enjoyed it the world they’d been given

Living with God on earth as in heaven

They ate & they drank & were never in need

Living life as they ought, how the Lord God decreed

Except until one day when a foe not a friend

Came to whisper his lies & God’s laws to amend

"Really? He said that, he outlawed that seed

Are you sure you heard him right, what the Lord God decreed

Did He really say that? In God can you trust

Restricting your freedoms, He treats you like dust

A God who denies you puts me at unease

Take a moment & think what the Lord God really decrees

He knows you’ll be like Him when you eat from that tree

The fruit He’s forbidden will help you to see. Knowledge of ‘good’ & what’s ‘evil’ proceeds

That’s why He stops you, the Lord God in decrees.”

Grasp your own destiny, take life by the horns

Eat from that tree, look there's no thorns

The fruit looks so tasty & ripe from that seed

Eat it now both of you that’s my decree”

The serpent had tricked them, they bought all his lies

Following him not God looked best in their eyes

Eve took it & ate & then gave it to Adam

& he ate it & enjoyed it but at once a great chasm

A divide had appeared, not one you could see

Between Adam & God & His beautiful Eve

God came to greet them & He noticed their deed

At once His heart sank, they’d broken His decree

“Not me, Blame her, she’s the one who led me astray”

“Not me either, the serpents the one who made us his prey”

“He asked if you loved us then why you decreed?

What was so terribly wonderful about that seed

& now we know it’s not the fruit that’s the problem

It’s our hearts, not the rules, our inability to follow the

Naked we stand here, ashamed rule breakers

Rebelers against you who loved us & made us"

They were right of course when they surveyed the scene

Everything, all creation had somehow lost its sheen

God hadn’t come to dwell as before

He’d come to judge them for breaking His law

The verdict was labour, hard labour at that

For the man the kind that breaks your back

For the woman in childbirth she’d know her sentence

& death to all people, each one of their descendants

But God wasn’t happy to simply hand out that verdict

A promise came also, so sweet you should’ve heard it

“A rescue will come to you both from her seed”

A rescue how wonderful, what the Lord God decreed!

“It won't be pretty what He’ll have to do

To live & to die before making things new

But I promise to you, to the creatures I love

We can be together again if you trust in His blood”

“Who is Good?” Not Adam, not Eve

My guess is that it isn’t you either, I’m certain not me

Only one was good & you know Him as Jesus

He came from the Father to save us, to free us

It was love in the beginning & love in the end

Love that created & love that repaired

“God Is Love.” I’m sure you’ve heard

But that Love is seen in the incarnate WORD

Jesus it was who spoke the creation

Jesus it was who gave live through oration

Jesus it was who banished from Eden

Jesus it was who promised to save them

Jesus it was who took on our flesh

Jesus it was who died our death

Jesus it was & Jesus it is

It’s always been Jesus, everything is His

Jesus it was, that promised seed

He’s what’s good, just as the Lord God decreed