Reminder

Being adrift is akin to idleness in many ways, and I have found that it is not a good state to be in.  This Sunday, my Pastor started a new series on "When God Asks the Questions", and he started with a really good reminder from Genesis 3.  

The serpent, Satan, asks the first question recorded in the Bible:  'Did God really say, "You must not eat from any tree in the garden?"'  This was a diabolical question designed to question the character of God; and Eve believed the lies of false promises of immortality, knowledge, and righteousness without God.  Eve fell into the three categories of temptation - lust of flesh, eyes, and boastful pride of life. 

As a result, perfect fellowship with God was broken, fellowship with each other broken, spiritual death entered, and they experienced their first signs of sin's torment.   But, praise God, in Gal 3:3, God removes the curse of sin that came from taking the fruit of this tree and having the block the tree of life, through another tree (the cross).

When God asked the question "Where are you?" - behind the question is the heart of God:

• "Where" => consider your location or distance from God
• "are" => not "were", focusing on present, not where you've been or where you're going
• "you" => not "they", calling you back

What a needed and timely reminder, that Satan tries to tempt us by deceiving us about the character of God; and that sin only really results in brokenness.