Genesis 3:9-12 And the LORD God called to Adam, and said to him, Where are you?… So there is a consistency in sin: they who hid themselves from one another hid themselves from the presence of the Lord. Sin is the only separating power. Goodness loves the light. Innocence is as a bird that follows the bidding of the sun. When your little child runs away from you, either you are an unlovely parent or the child has been doing wrong. Adam was afraid of the Lord (ver. 10). Afraid of Him who had made the beautiful garden, the majestic river, the sun, and the moon and the stars! How unnatural! Instead of running to the Lord, and crying mightily to Him in pain and agony of soul, he shrunk away into shady places, and trembled in fear and shame. We do the same thing today. We flee from God. Having done some deed of wrong, we do not throw ourselves in utter humiliation before the Lord, crying for His mercy, and promising better life; we stand behind a tree, thinking He will pass by without seeing us. This sin makes a fool of a man as well as a criminal — it makes him ridiculous as well as guilty. It makes its own judgment day. (J. Parker, D. D.) Who told thee that thou wast naked? — Parallel Verses KJV: And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?WEB: Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?" |
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