Where Are You?

Genesis 3:8-9 (NIV)
⁸ Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
⁹ But the LORD God called to the man, "Where are you?"

God comes to the place where He expects to find the man, but the man and his wife are not there. Instead of joyfully receiving His Company in the cool of the day, they flee His presence and hide behind the trees in the garden. Disobedience has brought guilt, fear, and shame.

God called out, “Where are you?”

He came again in the man Jesus. He did not come to the place we should be, but where we are, in a fallen world subject to the heat of sin and disobedience. He calls to us with His offer of our return to the garden. His peace and forgiveness are before us. The question is the same:

"Where are you?"