Genesis 3: 9-10
Then the Lord God called Adam and said to him, “Where are
you?” So he said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I
was naked; and I hid myself.”
In these two verses we confront the power of sin. When Adam
sinned, everything in his world changed. More importantly Adam’s heart changed
towards God, but God’s heart towards Adam stayed exactly the same. Sin turns
our back on God and makes us ashamed. Sin turns a loving Father into an angry
God who must be appeased. Sin brings us under the deception of punishment.
Sin made Adam cover up and hide behind the tree. It was sin
that caused the separation between man and God, and this separation was only in
the mind of Adam. In his mind Adam now saw himself condemned and hid in fear
from the punishment he expected to receive from God. Every day he had walked
and fellow-shipped with God, they had laughed together, talked together, and
were both eternally and blissfully joyful and happy. Adam in his foolishness
had thought that he could add something to this wonderful bliss God had
provided, that he could make it even better. But he already had perfection.
Our sin causes us to judge God, in our minds we determine
what makes God happy or angry and what we have to do to make it right.
Sin causes us to have unbelief in the goodness of God.
God in Christ took all the consequences of our sin. Christ
nailed our sin, our old selves to the cross and died as me. Sin no longer
causes the separation between man and God. The only separation is in the heart and
mind of man which causes him not to believe in all Christ has achieved for him
at the cross.
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