COMMUNION LOST-REGAINED

Walking in the garden in the cool of the day
Unimaginable bliss beyond what words can say
Sweet communion with the blessed Trinity
Created for Him, our innate capacity

Enter the tempter, fallen morning star of old
“You can know more,” our first parents were told
Knowledge like God, the promise is made
By eating the fruit of the tree He forbade

Eager, they eat, of the fruit of the garden
Deceived, by the serpent, sweet communion forgotten
Eager to experience what they already enjoy
A ravaged relationship, the devil’s sly ploy

Oh what a bitter travesty
Separated from God Most High’s Majesty
In the cool of the day, God seeking their presence
Them hiding in shame with sin laden conscience

Expelled from the garden
Sweet fellowship forgotten
Lost communion with their Lord
Blocked by an angel with flaming sword

What hope again of true intimacy
With the blessed Godhead Trinity
Humanity in its extremity
Desperately needs again divine mercy

Enoch, Noah and Abraham found approval in God’s plan
Restored communion between God and man
Friends of God
With Him they trod
Men of old, who walked by faith
Communed with God, face to face

Then out of Egypt God chose a nation
Bringing men hope in their sinful condition
In fire and smoke God descends upon Sinai
Once again offering for men to draw nigh

But in stark terror and great fear
The people tremble as God draws near
“You speak for us Moses”, they plead
Gravely aware of the mediator they need

Prophets and seers He sends to them
Those with whom He shares sweet communion
Anointed ones who speak for Him
As representatives to the rest of men

God’s design for entire humanity
Now for a few with inspired ecstasy
God’s plan for one and all
Limited to a few with special call

And even then the news is grim
That these specially chosen men
So tainted and stained by sin
Soon are unable to hear from Him

Humanity’s hope of communion again
With God…shattered by insidious guilt and sin
Impossible to commune with His holiness
Creatures so contaminated by sin’s filthiness


Oh the need of One to stand between
God’s pure holiness and man’s dire sin
Of One to restore the sweet communion
Humanity once enjoyed with its truest Friend

Behold Him come
Heaven’s glorious Son
Exact representation of God’s nature
God to man come near

Early in the morning out in the wilderness
Communing with God in intimate sweetness
Late at night in earnest intercession
Father and Son, what sweet communion

My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me, He cries
Into Your hands I commit My spirit and He dies
Intimate of God become His enemy
Paid the price to cover our iniquity

Opened the way into the presence of holiness
Gave us His righteousness for our filthiness
Restored communion between God and man
Returned humanity to God’s original plan

Walking in the garden in the cool of the day
Unimaginable bliss beyond what words can say
Sweet communion with the blessed Trinity
Created for Him, our innate capacity