A Suitable Companion (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
from his body, his rib God making a helper, a champion someone to complete him to get the job done ...
from his body, his rib God making a helper, a champion someone to complete him to get the job done ...
By his faith in God doing as he had commanded a reward, an inheritance a son given to the father ...
Only in our faith in Christ made right with God sealing the breach the chasm between God and man eternal ...
Humbly we must fall on our knees at the cross aware of our need to truly repent of our sin ...
Not just our actions the sins we can quantify needing to admit our brokenness the sin in our nature our ...
Because through one man the breach, the break with God sin entering the world so it had to be one ...
The very first man breaking the command of God man in the garden breaking the very first law Only one ...
Standing, hiding in the garden the sound of the creator fear in their hearts Aware of their nakedness the death ...
Lustful, our carnal nature the corruption of our sexuality focused on the earthly the things of man The garden there ...
Forever banished thrown out of the beautiful garden Eden forever lost, our place in the fall of man Dying to ...
By the choice of Adam by his disobedience his choosing to eat of the fruit all of us are cursed ...
Through Christ alone, fully human and totally divine the word made flesh coming to earth to redeem us of our ...
Not growing smarter gaining an insight becoming adults on a par with God Expelled, out of the garden the bliss ...
If the fruit was not eaten the garden never changed man and God dwelling walking with each other innocent in ...
Biting of the forbidden fruit dying to our God no longer his creation sentient, dying in their wisdom after following ...
Cast out of the garden because we had eaten the fruit broken the first law of God listening to the ...
Needing Christ fully human, utterly divine to restore the connection to undo the harm the breach between God and man ...
Calling this a myth because the word sin was not there their nakedness revealed because they had eaten the fruit ...
In the moment choosing sin, disobedience a state of grace lost forever dying in the garden suddenly aware of their ...
Choosing meekness, the way of Christ Submitting to the will of God not assertive, but meek Calm within the storm ...
Christ, alive, risen the word of love who came to life, to the earth an example, showing us, all of ...
Transfiguration people humbly before you shining with the love of God sitting in the sanctuary Putting aside our pride our ...
Something incredible in the nature of God all powerful, eternal yet loving us, in spite of our sin the fall ...
Forever changed, on the mountain Moses, Christ, those who claim his name Changed by Love, the action, the word of ...
Before the ashes, in thinking of love the story of our king of the change love makes the shine upon ...
Bound by my humanity unable to turn from my sin needing God, Christ, the spirit within me to change from ...
The truth, their sin naked, revealed transparent before God Hiding from their maker knowing what they had done Cast out ...
No matter our sense of self our wisdom on this earth infants still, the stuff of man keeping us from ...
carrying the stones of this life the sins of the garden and the sins of our days weighing us each ...
The cunning, the lying word denying the word of God So much of the loss we know in the listening ...
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