“And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.”
Then the Lord God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”
Genesis 3: 8-9 NASB
Is God, The Father, asking that of you today?
“Where are you?”
Maybe instead of meeting Him today for life giving fellowship and encouragement, you are trying to hide from Him.
Maybe you messed up again and, instead of acknowledging the sin and repenting, you have run to the grove of “busyness trees” in your life and are trying to hide from His presence.
You have failed again and how can you face Him? So you are hiding from Him.
BUT HE, in His faithfulness to YOU, His child, comes seeking you.
He asks, “Where are you?”.
In His wisdom He knows already where His little lamb has run off to.
So we need to give up our “fig leaf” and “shame of failure” and agree with Him on what we have done, (that is what repentance is) and ask for forgiveness which He will gladly extend.
Be restored to that life -giving, joyous, edifying, fellowship.
Remember, the Lord Jesus told His disciples,
“You did not choose Me, but I chose you…. John 15: 16
He chose us. We did not find Him. He found us….sin and all.
So He is asking “Where are you?”
Not for His sake. For our sake. We need to be honest about where we are in our Christian walk.
He stands ready to forgive, love, strengthen, encourage and make us wiser in our pilgrimage to His House.
Just flee to Him.
“Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession, for we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin, let us therefore draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace to help in time of need.” Hebrews 4:14-16 NASB
Carl
Psalm 119: 38 