Verse of the Day 2/25

Through the Bible - Numbers 23-25

Good morning,
Do you remember your father coming home from work at a regular time for dinner? You could recognize the sound of your family car, the car door closing and the door of your house opening and you knew your dad was home. Perhaps you are the dad and one of your kids is experiencing this now.
What happened when you did something wrong or had a bad report card? You probably didn't go to meet your dad at the door.
That was the picture that I got this morning when I read Genesis 3:8-9
Gen 3:8 And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

9 Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, "Where are you?" NKJV

I wonder what the "sound of the Lord walking in the garden" was, perhaps it was the rustling of leaves on the ground or in the trees. Whatever it was Adam and Eve recognized it and up until now must have looked forward to the encounter.
But something had changed, they had sinned, and now were trying to hide from God. But they couldn't hide, not really, God knew where they were.
Man had turned away but God was calling to him.
MacArthur comments, "God appeared, as before, in tones of goodness and kindness, walking in some visible form..... He came not in fury, but in the same condescending way He had walked with Adam and Eve before."
What had been a beautiful, perfect relationship had become one of fear.
Have we tried doing the same thing when we've sinned, to hide from God? Who acts to restore the relationship. Is your relationship strained right now? God may be calling to you in the same verse, where are you? Where have you been? Will you respond? How will you respond?
Is there a strain in another relationship? Will you be the peacemaker?
Matt 5:8-9
Blessed are the pure in heart,
For they shall see God.
9 Blessed are the peacemakers,
For they shall be called sons of God.
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In Christ,
Mike

Gen 3:1-16

The Temptation and Fall of Man(Rom 5:12-21)
3 Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, "Has God indeed said, 'You shall not eat of every tree of the garden'?"
2 And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; 3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.'"
4 Then the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.
8 And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
9 Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, "Where are you?" 10 So he said, "I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself."
11 And He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?"
12 Then the man said,"The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate."
13 And the Lord God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?"
The woman said,"The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
14 So the Lord God said to the serpent:
"Because you have done this,You are cursed more than all cattle,And more than every beast of the field;On your belly you shall go,And you shall eat dustAll the days of your life. 15 And I will put enmityBetween you and the woman,And between your seed and her Seed;He shall bruise your head,And you shall bruise His heel."
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