Where Are You?

After Adam and Eve sinned, God asked them a question. Even today how we respond to this question is important to our understanding of God and how we fellowship with Him.

In Genesis 3:9 God calls out to Adam and Eve. “Where are you?”

All around the world, God calls out to the lost and to those who are hiding. It’s never a question of God needing directions as if He couldn't find us. God is everywhere at all times. As fallen humanity, sinners don’t naturally seek out God. Our tendency is to run and hide from His presence. Still God in His mercy seeks us out (Isaiah 53:6, Luke 19:10).

And truth be told, some of us did not want to be found because we were so enamored and ensnared by the pleasures of sin.

Out of pride and fear, we dismiss Him though we admittedly can see how destructive our lives become without Him. There is a deception that weaves a tight web around our minds, blinding us from the true reality of our condition outside of Christ!

Unless He seeks us out as He did to Adam and Eve we remain in our sins, deceived and ashamed.

If God asks where are you it’s never to be taken lightly. This is not a childish game of hide-and-go seek. Why is it that we foolishly think we can be selective in choosing the areas of our lives to be known by God while other parts of our heart remain hidden from His sight? Hebrews 4:13 says, “Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.”

When He questions us, we must answer honestly. About what we think, of how we feel, of the things that trouble and concern us and even why we are hiding. And we must be willing to listen when He responds. He will always speak the truth about Himself and of our condition.

Remember when God comes walking into hidden garden of our lives, it is not to destroy us but to bring us into life.

Don't run!