Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. So the Lord God called out to the man and said to him, “Where are you?” (Gen. 3:8-9, CSB)
This couple, Adam and Eve, heard the Lord and ran. They tried to run from God, because of their sins. After the fall, where sin entered the world, our relationships with each other and God are scarred by separation.
I hadn’t really thought about the separation effect sin has on our relationship with one another. It puts things into clear perspective, though. As the human race, we are separated from one another – as a direct result of sin. This is the ultimate cause of why my relationships seem to be more known by this separation than togetherness.
It reminds me of the vast effect sin can have on my life and relationships. Sin affects everything. It doesn’t only affect my relationship with our holy God. It has affected everything.
. . . But there is more to the story, we can find redemption through God’s Son and our Savior – the Risen Lord Jesus Christ.
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come! 18 Everything is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation. 19 That is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and he has committed the message of reconciliation to us.
20 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us. We plead on Christ’s behalf: “Be reconciled to God.” 21 He made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God (2 Cor. 5:17-21, Emphasis Mine).
~ Stacey
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