If you want something undone yourself

“He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.” Genesis 3:15

The Garden sets the stage for the rest of the Bible. It seems a brief moment, but it is a moment of, shall we say, great moment. The transactions which take place here teach us the lay of the land: God’s goodness, God’s holiness, and God’s grace—his goodness in creating the Garden and giving it to Adam and Eve, his holiness in reserving one tree for himself to remind them that he is better than all the best things, and his grace in promising mercy even before he pronounced the curses of sin upon the man and his wife.

The One who walked with them in paradise was God the Son. No one has ever seen God the Father, not even Adam and Even (John 1:18). God the Son has always been the brightness of his glory to mankind, “rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the children of man” (Prov 8:31). So when he told the serpent that one of their children would crush his head and undo his wicked work, what he was really saying was, “I’m coming here as one of them to finish this myself.” As the saying goes, If you want something done right, do it yourself, or in this case, If you want something undone right, undo it yourself.