One of my favorite times of the day is waking up. Not the actual waking up part (I am grateful, but sometimes that’s a little hard 😉 ), but when I finally get up, I get to draw back the curtains and see the new day. It’s untouched. It’s filled with hope and promise. Whatever happened yesterday is not here for this is today. It’s that freshness that draws me in and gets my soul stirred for the possibilities ahead.
When we go on vacation, one of the places we stay at is a condo in the mountains. It’s so peaceful. With coffee in hand in the morning, I head out onto the balcony and sit to admire the new day. The only thing I hear is the birds singing their song. The deer break twigs and rustle leaves when they walk. Sometimes you see the groundhogs and other animals eating their meals for the day. You get this sense about you that this is the way it was meant to be.
And it makes me wonder about a time when every day was meant to be like this. When there was a time when all days started in innocence, and nothing was yet corrupted. When there was a time when man walked freely before God in that Garden.
I love gardens, and I am working on mine. We were meant to live the garden lifestyle. We were designed to reign in innocence and peace. The world we live in today contradicts the fellowship we were created to have with God. We were to have an up-close relationship with Him. After the fall, the Bible tells us, “And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day…” (Gen. 3:8).
Let your mind go back, not to the sin, but to the experience of being with God in the garden. Adam and Eve experienced God on a level that no other being will have the privilege to. Surely this was not the first time God had paid them a visit in this fashion, for they knew what it sounded like when they heard His voice in the garden. They had a realistic divine view of the Almighty here on earth.
What would it have been like to have the Sovereign of the universe, day by day, come and see about me? What would it have been like to verbally hear the mouth that spoke things into existence, speaking to me? What would it have been like to hear Him moving among the garden with my own ears and to know it was the Lord? What would it have been like?
There, thinking back before the Fall, fellowship with God was uninterrupted by evil. There, the beauty of all God is could be seen by those He created. There, peace was the predominant feeling because the shaker of peace had not entered the scene. There, God spoke directly to man unhindered by fleshly desires. There, it’s hard to imagine, but life was nothing but good because the man knew nothing but God.
Imagine the best backyard barbecue. We sit around laughing and enjoying the company of others. Not that we are bringing the Sacred down to our level, but in our finite understanding, can we imagine in the garden, Adam and God chit-chatting about the day, about the animals, or about life in general? Can we imagine the way Adam’s heart must have felt assured every time He heard the voice of God speak to him? Can we imagine that when Eve was presented to her husband, there was no fear, only love, because that’s all they ever received was love on the earth? Can we really imagine?
It may be hard for our minds to fathom such an age of innocence and honesty. It’s hard for us to see what this must have been like because now our view has been corrupted by sin. But I imagine it was glorious. It was nothing as we’ll ever know here on earth. In that garden, during that time, beauty is all that was seen with our eyes and with our hearts. God was all that was known. Oh, imagine.
It’s hard to put into words when everyone was right before God. It’s hard to describe from one’s soul a place of longing but never viewing. It’s hard to capture the essence of what being with God was like there, and yet my heart still yearns to know what would it have been like.
What do you think it would have been like to see the world at its best? What do you think it would have been like to fellowship with God at your best? Where we live in the mid-Atlantic region, we are expected to have rain most of the day. Even in this dreariest of settings, I’m looking at the trees swaying outside my window and imagining the beauty of that time. I guess that’s what it would have been like, beautiful beyond description, because everything was in harmony with God. Beautiful describes their relationship with God, and it illustrates the surroundings God created for them.
One day, we will experience that garden lifestyle again, that age of beautiful, unbroken relationship with Him, when we meet Him in our heavenly home. And I can’t wait.
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