I am struck by how many times the Bible tells us how good things were in the garden before the fall.
Everything was good, and everything together was very good.
That’s a lot of goodness, and exactly what we would expect in the work of a God who is good.
And then, it wasn’t.
I think we are too quick to accept the fallen world — the “less than very good” world — as the normal condition of the world.
But if Jesus came to redeem us and restore us back to the goodness we see in the garden, then he also had in mind the world around us. God wants to restore everything back to its original status.
Not to get too pop culture-y, but The Good Place isn’t something we encounter after we die like the TV show suggests. The Good Place is here. Adam and Eve lived in The Good Place until they jacked it up for themselves and the rest of us. But Jesus came to The Not So Good Place so that we could return to The Good Place.
[Tweet “Jesus came to The Not So Good Place so that we could return to The Good Place.”]It was good — very good — and it will be good again.
If it isn’t, God isn’t finished.
