DAILY READINGS: 2 Samuel 12; Habakkuk 3; Romans 16
And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of
Eden to dress it and to keep it. Genesis 2:15
The garden of Eden, was God’s ideal earthly home for man. There
he enjoyed the fruit of God’s provision, and was blessed with His fellowship.
Alas man rebelled against his Creator. But there was another
garden, Gethsemane, where our Lord did not act on His own will
as Adam had, but bowed to the will of His Father and went to the
cross to save us from the wreckage of that first sin. By faith in Him,
God’s heavenly home is opened. Do you believe? —Milton Haack
For me it was in the garden, He prayed: “Not My will, but Thine.”
He had no tears for His own griefs, but sweat drops of blood for mine.
O how marvelous! O how wonderful! And my song shall ever be:
O how marvelous! O how wonderful! Is my Saviour’s love for me! —C. H. G.