Paradise!

When you hear of the word Paradise...what do you think? Maybe you think of a sandy beach with scattered palm trees and soft, blue ocean waves that hit the shore. Or perhaps a cabin near the snow covered peaks in the mountains. Whatever your dream of paradise is like, have you ever wondered what it would be like to have lived during Adam and Eve's time; in their garden of paradise? A place where everything was perfect in itself; a place where you could find lions and lambs laying down together in the grass, where not a leaf would fall from a tree, where fruit was abundant and fresh…never going bad, and where every sound rested on your ears like sweet music. That is the paradise I think about when I hear the word, and I often wonder what the Garden of Eden was like. It’s hard to think of everything as perfect at one time when today we’ve never known perfect. The world we live in today is far from that word, and no matter what kind of paradise we hope for in this world, nothing will ever be perfect. We’ll have times of trouble and bad experiences even in our own little paradise. But the hope that we have and can look forward to is knowing that someday we will live in a perfect place where everything that surrounds us will be splendid and unimaginable. God right now, at this very minute, is preparing a wonderful place for us where we shall someday go and live with Him forever. Now that’s Paradise!