When He said, “It is good”,
did He mean all of it,
including the temptation:
the apple, snake and tree?
If it wasn’t All Good.
why declare it so?
Was it a mistake?
If He is mistaken,
He isn’t God.

(Right?)

So how was it all good?

Its goodness resides
in its role as option,
creating decision, a test.
For Freedom without choice
is a deception.

As He created Freedom,
He created the three:
apple; snake; tree…
and His Cross,
already hewn,
waiting on Golgotha.

And it is all good.