WHERE ARE YOU?

WHERE ARE YOU?

In search of true identity and purpose, we sometimes make life-changing errors.  Such was the case with our fore-parents, Adam and Eve.  Prayerfully consider their post-fall plight:

Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.  But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?” (Genesis 3:8-9)

Ironically, GOD had already issued a crystal-clear overview of their roles, rights and responsibilities.  Nevertheless, though they were created in the image and likeness of God, they made a poor choice, i.e. to believe, embrace and elevate the base lies of the deceiver – over and above the Word and will of God. (Genesis chapter 3, et al)

As a direct result, the first couple (that God intended to live forever with Him) was absolutely lost.  They earned an immediate sentence of spiritual death and a future appointment with the grave.

Remember this.  After their sin, the Creator was not in search of Adam’s location when He asked “Where are you?”  Rather, God was referring to man’s newly fallen state.  Unfortunately, their sins could not be hidden in a dying shroud of fig leaves because the omnipresent and omniscient Creator had full knowledge and awareness of their spiritual departure.  Likewise, Almighty God surely sees and knows us.

Sometimes, a man might try to hide in his career, in the womb of his family, in the comfort of his home, in the fellowship of friends, or even inside illegal drugs and empty alcohol bottles.  It never works.

At the end of the day, YOU ARE STILL YOU…AND YOU ARE STILL THERE.

Solution?  If we would only allow ourselves to become “hidden in Christ,” our spiritual blindness would be remedied by The Light. (Colossians 3:3)  And we would never have to run away again, nor would we have to discover the impossibility of hiding our past (or our present) from an all-knowing God.

Bottom-line: “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” (Joshua 24:15)  Our decision is simply that we are in Christ, and Christ is in us, “yesterday, today and forever.” (Hebrews 13:8)  Where are you?

Sisters and brothers, be continually blessed, and please (above all else) MAKE SURE YOU ARE READY TO MEET OUR SOON COMING KING.  Maranatha!