Hello beautiful people,
Today I wanna share something I found while reading Genesis 3, and I felt I must share it with all of you. It's simple yet a deep question, found in Genesis 3:9, which reads in the amplified -
"But the Lord God called to Adam, and said to him, “Where are you?”
When I first read this, it looked simple but as I read it multiple times, it caught my attention for few reasons, and they are –
Firstly, the book of Genesis starts with a vivid elaboration of God as the Uncreated Creator – “In the BEGINNING God..” (Gen 1:1)
Then, it continues to show in the remainder of the first chapter, how beautifully He weaved and crafted the universe and all that it contains, with His infinite wisdom, love and grace – which shows us that He is an not just an Uncreated Creator, but also possesses three unmatched qualities – “Omnipresence, Omnipotence & Omniscience”.
Genesis 1 shows us that He is a being who is infinite in every way, and there is only one of His kind.
Then we get to Chapter 2 of Genesis,
It's a review of God's work and how He made man and woman, and how He placed these perfect humans, in a perfect garden, in a perfect world, under perfect atmosphere and rule!
And then comes the shift!
Chapter 2 is the smallest, and also the last glimpse we get to have, of the lost paradise! And then we come to Chapter 3, which starts with a serpent, a figure, who is in total rebellion against God.
I don't know if it was author's intention but Genesis 1 starts with God and ends beautifully, and Genesis 3 starts with the rebellious one and ends nasty!
So, in Chapter 3, Adam and Eve disobey God and disregard His voice and they fall from grace and spiritually die! Now there's a lot that happens in this chapter, but today we are only going to focus on the 9th verse of this chapter.
So Adam and Eve, hear God walking in the garden and they hide themselves from God and God calls out – “.. Where are you?” (verse 9)
As I read these words, I saw something!
Looking at this verse from the lens of Genesis 1, this question from God makes no sense and then the Spirit of God helped me see something that I missed in my previous reading of this passage!
Genesis 1 shows us that God has three qualities, one of them is being Omniscient, which means He knows all things!
And so, there is no way, God wouldn't know that Adam and Eve have sinned and were hiding from Him.
If so, why would God ask “.. Where are you?”
The Holy Spirit helped me realise that God wasn't asking them for their physical location or to know where they were in the garden! In fact, when God said, “..Where are you?”, God was posing this question to help Adam understand his distant state of being, from the Glory of God!
How far have you gone from me?
Do you know your spiritual stance?
Do you know where you are standing at the moment?
It's definitely not in my glory and grace!
You are now lost, you are now distant –
This is what the question, “Where are you?" meant!
So my dear friends,
Today, if God is to asks you, "Where are you?"
Would you be able to answer His call with honesty?
More so, Would you be able to understand His call and your distance from Him?
Lack of desire to pray,
Lack of desire to praise,
Lack of desire to live for Jesus,
Lack of desire to repent,
Lack of desire to obey –
Can all cause you to be distant from God!
James 4:4 says,
“Come close to God [with a contrite heart] and He will come close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners; and purify your [unfaithful] hearts, you double-minded [people].”
It's never late to come closer to God,
If lately you've been distant, or if you never were closer to Him,
It's God, who calling you to come closer to Him, right now in this moment!
Do not harden your heart, but come closer to Him.
“This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn’t go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person’s failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him." — John 3:16-18 MSG.
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