The Cord that Binds

As it was, so it is. Human beings never seem to learn from the past that they tend to commit the same mistakes.

In the beginning of the world, Adam and Eve were blessed by God with all that He had created, for God so loved them. Yet they defied the Father by taking a bite from the fruit of the forbidden tree trusting in the serpent’s promise that they would not die. The defiance brought about the downfall of Man and established Man’s attachment to worldly things
One of the most powerful masterpieces of Michaelangelo shows God the Father in Heaven lowering down His hand as Adam reaches out to touch the Lord. The cord that binds Man to the Creator was best illustrated in that powerful painting. As a result of breach of the trust and love of God the Father, the Garden of Eden disappeared from the face of the earth. .’And the Lord God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever".’ (Genesis 3:22)

Man could only connect to the Lord God through the prophets until His Son came to walk amongst His people. That period of detachment revealed both the fury and the gentleness of God for Man. As He made the sinners suffer and evil kingdoms fall, He gave hope to those with faith and rewarded those who believed.

The cord tying Man to God was reinforced through the coming of His Only Son. God the Father showed the ultimate example of love by sending Jesus Christ not only to live amongst His people, not only to teach His people, not only to heal the sick, but most importantly to save them from sin. "I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick." (Ezekiel 34:16)

Through the suffering and death of Christ and His joyful resurrection, Man is able to reach out to God the Father though the intercession of His Beloved Son. "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 8:35, 37-39)

In the beginning, there was only perfection, God; so will there be perfection in the end of time

by Mel Libre