Day 236*: “Where art thou?”

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Even as you hit the fast lane of life with furious strides that brook no brakes, won’t you pause a moment to grab a grain of scriptural truth embedded herein ? (click on hypertext in the Day’s Reading for reference verse)

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“Where art thou?”

Adam was not playing a game of “hide and seek” with God, as he might have enjoyed doing before the ‘fall’. This time, he was genuinely holed up. He didn’t want to be seen by God. The season of pleasant walk with the Creator in the cool of the day is suddenly a thing of the past, all too soon. And it was not God who pulled out; it was Adam, consumed as he was by a sense of shame and enveloped by a feeling of mortification. It was after the Fall, but note, God came as usual. The man however was missing.

God didn’t come fuming and fulminating. He didn’t come with an earth shattering cry thundering, “Adam, what the devil have you done?”. All that was heard was a plaintive cry that came wafting over the vegetation and pierced Adam’s heart.

Now, where are we?

“Where art thou?”

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