Monday, August 3, 2015

Go away!

Genesis 3:8-9

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?”

I’m sure we have all at had a point or two in our lives where we did something and wanted to hid because we were ashamed.  After the fall in the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve hid. 

My son right now is at a stage where he knows when he’s done something wrong and if I come into the room, he’ll tell me, “Go away Momma”.    He knows that Mom is not going to allow him to keep doing wrong.  Yesterday at church, he wanted to sit with us instead of going into the nursery so we allowed him to.  He was being pretty good, only needing an occasional reminder to be quite.  As he was sitting next to Daddy, I looked over only to have him yell, “Go away Momma!”.  Thankfully his yell isn’t too loud but I chuckled to myself, thinking I was only checking in on him.  It then made me think about my life.  Do I ever find myself telling God to go away? 

Have you ever told God to go away?  While I surely hope that none of us truly want him to go away from us, I do hope that we feel the quilt when we do something wrong that makes us ashamed of what we have done. 


In verse 9, God called out to Adam, “Where are you?”   God already knew where Adam was, but he wanted Adam and Eve to realize what they had done wrong.  Next time you do something wrong and you feel like hiding from God because you are ashamed, remember that he knows where  you are and is just waiting for you to admit your wrong doings.  

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