Note: Devotion taken from last Sunday's sermon on Genesis 3:8-15.
And
the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? (Genesis
3:9).
As
we read the account of the LORD God’s confrontation with the first man and the
first woman after they had fallen by sinning against God and by eating the
forbidden fruit, we are meant to sympathize with our first parents. We should
be moved to acknowledge that we too have fallen, that we are naked, exposed
before a holy God, and we have only tried to hide ourselves from him, as did
they.
Yet
the LORD God comes to us even today, even also had come to them, with the voice
of his Word. He seeks us. He confronts us, and he places us under a spiritual investigation
or interrogation. He asks us questions, not because he is ignorant of the
answers, but because he is probing our conscience. So, he asks:
Where art thou? (v. 9).
Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I
commanded that thou shouldest not eat? (v. 11).
What is this that thou hast done? (v. 13).
Will
we cast or shift blame, as did the first man and woman, or will we acknowledge
and confess our faults (1 John 1:9)?
Will
we also come to know the one about whom God himself spoke in Genesis 3:15, in
that first prophecy of the Gospel. God himself acting as the Prophet declared
that from the seed of woman shall come one who will crush Satan’s head through
Satan shall bruise his heel (Isaiah 53:5: “he was bruised for our iniquities”).
In
Paul’s letter to the churches of Galatia he will describe the Lord Christ in
this way:
Galatians 4:4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his
Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
And in Galatians 3:13 Paul says that the Lord
Jesus Christ “was made a curse for us.” He is the only hope for fallen men.
Grace and peace, Pastor Jeff Riddle
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