The Mystery of The Plan

Who can understand the mystery of that plan?
Before the race was created you decided if need be to come as a man.
You formed a man and woman right out of the dusty earth,
You gave them a begining, a new life and a miraculous birth.

You created them with feeling, with choice and a free will,
So that they could be forever happy and praise you with their skill.
But as soon as time would have it they used it for their own,
And were driven from their beloved, sacred Eden home.

That’s when you gave them a promise that you would surely come,
To save them from their sins and someday take them home.
You would come as a baby so innocent and pure,
To show them that for sin You are the only cure.

But that is not the end of the sad and tragic story
I must admit as I go on this could seem a little gorey,
For Jesus, on a cross, paid Our death penalty
So that Adam and Eve could live with him for all eternity.

Then on the first morning He rose up from the grave
And He is alive and risen and for us he came to save,
It wasn’t just for Adam and it wasn’t just for Eve
It is for all who ask forgiveness and then in faith believe!

I hope that this Christmas(or new year) you think not only about the babe
But of the cross of suffering and how he came to save,
And also of those mansions that he has gone to prepare
Oh! My friend and brother, I pray to see you there!

Jessica Salmon
December 7, 2001