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“And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it” (Genesis 2:15).
When people think of the Garden of Eden, many think of it as a place where Adam and Eve had nothing to do, and that they were simply able to sit around and enjoy it. According to today’s verse, this was not so. It is true that none of the effects of sin were there, so that there were no plant diseases, nor were there weeds in among the good plants. Everything brought forth bountifully, and food was plentiful.
However, there was still something for Adam and Eve to do; otherwise they might have been lazy and perhaps bored. Adam was to dress and to keep the garden, so that there was some work for him to do. But there was no anxiety about it all, and no stress involved in it. It was a wonderful paradise, yet man spoiled it by disobeying the one command that God had given him.
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