The Cost of Love

The Price of One Soul 

When Adam and Eve sinned in the garden,
what would we have done?
How would we have reacted?

It would have been easy
to destroy them
and wipe the slate clean.

Easy
to begin again.

The earth already formed,
the heavens stretched out,
the animals created,
the garden planted.

Simply mark it down
as failed experiment number one
and move on to number two.

You say,
“But that would mean
the loss of more than eight billion people.”

No.

That day,
it was only two people
with the potential
of billions more.

A second beginning
could have carried
the same possibility.

And we know ourselves 

well enough to admit
we would scarcely hesitate.

But love—
so great a love—
would not start over.

Instead,
God set redemption into motion.

Blood was shed
to cover shame in the garden,
a covering that pointed forward
through generations,
toward another hill,
another sacrifice,
another shedding of blood—

Calvary.

He formed that hill 

knowing what wood 

would stand upon it 

Before man 

ever reached for 

the forbidden tree 

God 

has already seen 

another tree 

The value of a soul
is measured by the distance
heaven was willing to travel
to redeem it.

The value—

of your soul 

And so great a love 

© Ron Simpson Jr. 

May 14, 2026