Paradise Lost, Paradise Gained

By disobedience mankind was forced to leave Paradise.

By obedience mankind can return to Paradise.

By submitting our will 

To the will of the only One who is completely good, Christ;

The One who is complete in Himself;

The One in whom we can find completeness;

The One who is all knowing, all seeing, 

All powerful and present everywhere.

The creator of all that exists,

Who spoke the material world into being.

The One who is the only Way the only Truth and the only LIFE.

The One who is Love and Light; Only in His Light do we see Light.

The One who invites us into His Light

Who invites us back to Paradise simply by our willingness;

Who invites us to become ONE with Him;

To enjoy all that He has, all that is in His Kingdom;

Which is all that there is to have.

This is the magnificence of God and His Christ, Jesus.

You were created by Him and only in Him will you find completeness;

Because He is the only One who is complete.

There is nothing good apart from Him; 

Everything apart from Him is a lie.

The original lie was 

That God was holding something back from Adam and Eve.

The Serpent wanted Adam and Eve dead spiritually, 

And he accomplished that;

He deceived them, and at the moment of their disobedience 

They died spiritually. They lost Paradise.

Paradise is the place of perfection, where everything is complete

Where everything is as it should be; where everything is good;

Where Love rules and reigns; where God who is Love, rules and reigns;

Where peace and joy are never ending.

You are accepted in Paradise and way beyond accepted,

You will be ONE with God, and ONE with all who are in Paradise.

We were all created for Paradise, it is where we belong.

This world is not our home, Paradise is.

Until God reclaims this world at the second coming of Christ Jesus

This world belongs to the evil one.

We are in this world but not of this world;

We are in this world, 

But we live in the Secret Place of the Most High God.

This world in its present state is hopeless; 

Yet there is all hope in Christ.

Our hope is not in this world but in Christ.

Life is a test; will you believe the Truth or the lie.

If this world is your home you have believed the lie;

This world is hopeless, and you are hopeless without Christ.

Yet, you can overcome this world through Christ.

The test is, will you do it? It is your choice.