I did not write this. However, it is well written and an amazing perspective that stirs up your spirit. It might seem long but stay with it because it is fantastic. I hope you enjoy. I do not know who the author is but it came from this website click here
[Usually when reading the early parts of Genesis, I have focused on viewing it from the perspective of Adam. Lately I have sought to view it from the vantagepoint of the Tree of Life.]
So, if trees could talk . . ..
I watched as the Father created Adam, shaping and forming him from the red clay. With His eyes fastened upon His Son, he shaped this earthly creature. As He did so, He wove into the man something of His heart’s desire: the drive for oneness, the necessity of being in union. He made the man with something lacking, something the man himself would need to find, in response to his inner instinct for completion.
I heard Him say, “it is not good for man to be alone”. Yet, the pathos in His voice revealed something deeper than the man’s aloneness! It was a cry from within His own heart, a desire that was burning within His own Being!
I rejoiced watching the man as all the animals were brought before him, and instinctively he named them! The look upon the man’s face was a sight to behold! He saw each creature and marveled that they were two, male and female! I watched him continuously look down the line of approaching creatures, gazing, probing the scene; he was looking for something, rather someone!
As he named these creatures he would gaze at his Lord and yes, his Lord was alone, he was alone, but these creatures were two! The man began to be stirred by inward yearnings; he must have his “other”, his female.
As God and man went on their usual stroll in the cool of the evening, they stood before me. They were deep in conversation about all of the trees in the Garden, what they were for and how rich they were. As they stood among my roots, God told the man that I was the source of all life, that He desired him to eat and drink from me continually. I rejoiced as the man beamed with excitement and could sense his spirit stirring within him each time he touched my trunk and held my leaves, examining the luscious fruit that I bore.
What the man did not realize was that I not only was the best tree in the Garden, but also that I inhabited the invisible as well as the visible realms. I was indeed food for him! I was full of living water, bursting to come forth and infill the man. Oh, how I wanted so, so much to drench his being and quench his thirsts and hungers! I could not bear waiting for him to partake of me! If he only realized that all wealth and satisfaction beyond his wildest dreams were in me waiting to come forth and inhabit him!
I listened as God explained to him in vivid detail not to eat of that other tree in the garden! Oh, that tree looked a lot like me! But what was in that tree, no one was ever to partake of it! I had seen the havoc it brought in the heavenly realm! And now it was here, on earth, even in the Garden! With all of my being, I cried out, “Don’t, don’t eat that of that tree! Come, man, come to me, eat and drink! Be filled!”
I continued to watch as God and man spoke of no longer being alone. How Adam had yearned for his other: his “female” him! I watched as he was put to sleep and God opened his side and removed from within him a part of his bone. I marveled as the man slept and I watched God work with all of his strength and power, pouring Himself into building this one for the man. How He gloried in this task, the look upon His face glowing and glowing brighter as He brought forth from this bone one so beautiful, so glorious that she would be called the mother of all life!
The man awoke. He knew something from within him was missing. The instinct for completion, the drive for oneness was now overbearing! Constantly he felt a deep overwhelming yearning to find his other! He must have her! He must know oneness and union!
I watched as they met, as they stared at one another, as they both realized the drive for oneness. That drive was matched by something in the other, and they knew oneness.
Now they are ready to come and eat of my fruit! All that was within me yearned to be joined to this man, to this woman! I longed for them to come and feast upon my fruit, to drink deeply of the uncreated Life that filled every particle of my essence. I too, longed to fulfill my purpose, to enter the man and the woman, and to make them utterly complete! Come to me, man! Come to me, woman! Partake of the Divine! Come, drink of the True Water and the True Food! Come; find all of your satisfaction in me! Come!
But alas! All of my yearnings were not to be heard! I watched as the serpent, that deceiver who fell from high places in the invisible realm, approached the woman. He was here now, enticing the woman, spinning his deceit like a web, drawing her towards that other tree.
And then it happened! She reached up; she partook of its fruit . . .. She turned to her man, telling him of the splendor of what she was experiencing. I watched with broken heart as what she ate become part of her, deceiving her, fooling her to think she was complete within herself, that she did not need me! He too, partook of that tree’s fruit, and soon was wrapped in the deception wrought by the serpent. The rebellious nature of that fallen angel was now living in the man and the woman.
I stood there aghast at what I saw! How I longed to be fed upon. But no longer could this take place. For were I to enter them in their present state, the Father’s plan would be lost forever! There must be another way! What could I do?
My thoughts were interrupted by the presence of the Lord, billowing forth radiant light, as He called the man and spoke with him. The sadness, the shattering of God’s heart was so evident. Yet He sounded forth such a promise that I knew that one day, all of my desires, all of my hopes would still be fulfilled! What a God have I!
He stood there and declared to this man and this woman: “Fear not, for I will cause your seed to crush the head of that serpent! He will be known as the Root of Jesse, He will declare Himself to be the source of Life when He is among you!”
I cried as the cherubim and the flaming sword was placed before me to prevent them from coming and eating of me. I broke as the couple was sent out of the Garden, out of the very pleasure of God, to toil and live out the consequences of their folly.
Centuries have past, generations have come and gone, and finally the time has come!
The Promised Seed has come! The Root of Jesse is here! Listen to Him speak: “Unless I, the Seed, fall into the earth and die, I shall remain alone, but if I die, I shall bring forth She who is bone of My bone and flesh of My flesh!“; “I am the true vine”; “He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has uncreated life”; “I am the Living Water!”
I watched as He went into death and rose again, breaking the outer shell of the Seed, becoming many seeds, yet One! I watched as the cherubim put away the flaming sword! Access to the Tree of Life is restored! Come, eat! Come, drink! Be filled!
