Saturday, January 6, 2007

Hiding From God Pt 2

When we go back to Genesis we see it was man that partook of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. This was not just an “evil” tree as such but it also included good as well. When man (Adam) partook of that tree it was not God that changed His opinion towards man it was man that changed his opinion towards God. It was not God that turned His face away from man but it was man that turned his face away from God. It was not God that ran away from man but it was man that ran away and didn’t want anything to do with God anymore.


 

I know most of us have seen this the opposite way but when you read it in its proper context we see that is just not so. I know we have all had the perception that when Adam ate of the tree it was God that turned the other way and wanted nothing to do with man. This is just not so. When you read the account of it in Genesis it just does not bear out. It was Adam that went and hid from God (Gen 3:8) and not the other way around.

 

When God asked Adam why he hid from Him he replied it was because he was naked (Gen 3:10). Well if you go back a bit and read you will see that Adam was already naked before he ate from the tree. He no longer saw God the proper way and he decided he had to hide from Him. Unbelief had entered to the extent that Adam no longer saw God how He really was. He didn’t believe God any longer and he hid from Him. Man’s problem began in the way he perceived God and not how God perceived man.

 

This problem is still very much prevalent today. When we see God as angry, and ready to pour out His wrath and judgment upon us, we tend to want to hide from Him. God does not hide from man to this day. Man will try to do everything he can in order to get right with God because of fear and a total misunderstanding of how God looks at us. We will be like Adam and feel naked before Him and will want to hide.

 

All this does is what it did to Adam and that was He went into unbelief. It was not his actions and deeds that made him hide from God. It was that he no longer saw God the way God really was. He had acquired knowledge of good and evil and he didn’t believe properly any longer. He saw God as angry and ready to pour out His wrath upon Him. He was seeing God in the wrong light. When we begin to see ourselves the way God sees us, which is in His Son, and then we no longer feel naked and want to hide from God. We see Him as Who He really is, a God of love and compassion that loved us enough to give His Son to die on a cross for us. We can then see ourselves as He sees us which are righteous and holy and perfect because we are in His Son.

 

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