Hide And Seek

Hide and Seek

Eve

Read: Genesis 3:8-10

Eve’s attempt to hide from God shows that she didn’t get the results that Satan had promised her when she ate the forbidden fruit. She wanted to gain knowledge and wisdom but then was foolish enough to think that she could hide from an all-seeing God. Instead of joyfully running to meet him when he came to walk with them, Adam and Eve tried to avoid him. Their guilty consciences isolated them from the One who had created them, provided for their needs, and loved them.

We can’t fully appreciate the loss that Adam and Eve experienced. We have never lived in a perfect environment or had God physically walk and talk with us in a garden, but we all suffer from the effects of their fall into sin. And people have been trying to hide from God ever since. Some hide behind philosophy, a false religion, or a destructive lifestyle. Christians play a more subtle game of hide-and-seek. We sometimes use church activities or spiritual busyness to avoid total openness and honesty with the Lord we are supposedly serving.

God knows us much more intimately than we know ourselves. He is fully aware of our actions, thoughts, feelings, and motives. No matter what we’ve done or how badly we’ve messed up, he seeks us and desires fellowship with us. His call of “Where are you?” is not a demand but an invitation to come clean and experience the joy of being unconditionally loved and fully accepted by our Creator.

God sent a Savior to take the penalty for our sin so that we could stand before him unashamed and free of fear. Once our guilty consciences are cleansed by Christ’s blood, we never need to hide from God. We can come out from our hiding places and run to meet him.

Search me, O God, and know my heart.

Psalm 139:23