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Thursday, 30 October 2014 21:21

Everyone who believes in God knows the basics about Him. He's omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient. Therefore to break it down, he can do anything, he is everywhere, and he knows everything.

Genesis 3:1-13

hidingedenSo in my quest to always decipher some logic out of everything that I encounter, hear or read, one thing has always baffled me. How could a presence this powerful ask the people that he made, after they committed the first sin. "Where are you?" The word tells us that God was walking through the Garden of Eden and Adam and Eve were hiding from Him since they were now aware of their nudity. However, we've already established that it is impossible to hide from God. So again, why would God ask Adam "Where are you?"

Examining this question once again makes me realize that when dealing with God or reading the Bible, I can't always try to tap into earthly logic. Instead, there is a certain amount of spiritual intelligence that must be built and tapped into to gain a better understanding of the things God says and does. The question is not one of physical location, but one of spiritual location. When Adam and Eve sinned, they were no longer in close spiritual proximity to God. Their sin made them far away, placing a strain on their once close relationship.

Not only did their sin cause a schism between them and God, but the sin also caused tension between both Adam and Eve. Once ecstatic that he had a companion especially made for him, Adam now blamed Eve for his downfall and even went so far as to almost regret that God had given her to him in the first place. Eve turned around and blamed the snake for deceiving her. Yet, being the free-will creatures that we are, no one can be blamed for the sin placed in our lives but ourselves. If we knowingly break the laws and commands that God set's up for us, it really doesn't matter who or what caused us to sin.

When you sin, please do not beat yourself up, and think of yourself as a failure. Absolutely nobody is perfect and no matter how hard you try you will always fall short. The Christian life is not a sprint of a marathon, but more of a triathlon. Once we have finished one course of the race, there are other challenges that will require a new skill set that is forged by more knowledge of what God wants from you and more faith to keep going. Yes, we all have sin and will sin again. Just ask yourself when you do sin, "where am I in my relationship with God?" It's never too late to change course and to be found again.

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