The Apple and The Blood
It started with the apple
Dangling from the tree.
Brilliant red in color
Tempting as can be.
The serpent, he was clever;
Enticing was his claim
Of knowing good from evil;
Being like God – just the same.
As Eve did taste its sweetness
The great deception grew.
She ran to get her Adam
To taste the apple too.
So Adam took the fruit to eat.
He would not be denied.
Yet nakedness was known to them;
They had to run and hide.
This one life that they had to live
Became the devil's pawn.
One chance blown in the garden
And eternal life was gone.
So then to all that followed;
The curse held tight its claim
Their souls were chained in bondage
They suffered guilt and shame.
'Till piercing through the darkness,
God sent His only Son.
The Light that gives all Light to men
To make the curse undone.
His one life He gave freely.
His one chance He laid down.
As payment for our many sins;
Eternal life now found.
His Blood it flowed so brilliant red.
It made the apple pale.
His death so powerful in force
It ripped the temple's veil.
Salvation now is free for all.
One life, one chance again.
To trust in Jesus only
And in the end to win.
We're free now to be cleansed
From sin's dark miry mud.
For it started with the apple
But it ended with the Blood!