Earlier in the Autumn we were teaching through a series on connection and one of our team were looking at the start of Genesis and the relationship that between Adam and God in the Garden. They highlighted a wonderful verse in Genesis 3 that I came on this morning in my readings.

Just for context, this came after Adam and Eve have given into the temptation of the serpent and have eaten the fruit that they weren’t supposed to we come across this verse.

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. Genesis 3:8 (NIV)

This is the reaction sin creates in us, we want to hide from our creator and sustainer. There is something about the insidious nature of sin that causes us to retract and disappear from His sight. But what happens next is a moment I hadn’t really clocked onto before.

But the LORD God called to the man, “Where are you?” Genesis 3:9

I’ve only read this sentence within the story of Genesis. Adam and Eve had disappeared so God calls out to them. What this teacher taught me is that this was not just for that moment….this story….. but it resembled the cry of God to His humanity for the rest of time.

1 – We distance ourselves from God

2 – He comes to find us and calls out to us.

I just love this. Right at the beginning of the creation God sets a pattern that happens again and again throughout Scripture.

Whatever we have done, wherever we have been, no matter how much we want to hide ourselves from God, lets’ remember that He is the God who comes to seek us and call out to us.

The search is on always on