OUR FATHER WHOSE GREAT DAY APPROACHES

Genesis chapter 3 verse 9 says this;

But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”

In the garden of Eden, shortly after Adam and Eve had listened to the serpent and had eaten  the forbidden  fruit, the Lord God came to visit them in the cool of the evening and they were missing from where He usually met them and so God called to Adam, "Where are you?"

Adam and Eve had hidden themselves from God because they had eaten the fruit that they were not supposed to eat. They, after eating the fruit, became aware of their nakedness and they hid themselves from the Lord and from that moment on, lost their unfettered access to God.

After being expelled from the garden, the lot of the human race was the struggle for survival but the whole time, the Lord was asking mankind, "Where are you?" to see if anyone could be found who would turn to Him to be  saved.

Most people, caught up in the distractions of life, forgot their God and did not look to Him to save them or protect them.

As Isaiah chapter 17 verse 11 says;

You have forgotten God your Savior; you have not remembered the Rock, your fortress.

Isaiah 53 verse 6 says also;

We all, like sheep, have gone astray,  each of us has turned to our own way;

However, the day approaches when all the work of redemption that the Lord has done through all the ages will culminate in the appearance of God in great glory.

Isaiah chapter 17 verse 7 says it this way;

In that day people will look to their Maker and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.

The God from whom we hid and who was hidden from our eyes will be seen and we will turn from our own ways and return to Him from whom we departed and who paid a so great a price to redeem us to Himself.

Amen.