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WHERE ART THOU? - Where Art Thou Series 001
Genesis 3:9, KJV
"And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?"
When this voice begins to interrogate you, just know that you have trespassed and moved outside the circle God draws for you. Everybody has a circle of operation. For Adam, God places a restriction on his eating the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. The Bible says, "and the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die" (Gen.3:2-3).
God's warning is so stern and so particular to them that the restriction of God is far revealed in what sort of distance He told them to keep from that tree - to not even touch it at all let alone eat it. God knows if they played round it, they might be tempted to take part of it. For that sake, he builds a wall of defence round them through the far reaching instruction He gave them. The moral is this. What you don't want to eat, you shouldn't play in its vicinity. Don't say you can't fall into any particular sin (notable or intangible in human description). If you play around it, it could ensnare you. God knows that very well and you yourself must come home with that.
When Adam and Eve took of this forbidden fruit, they immediately disobeyed God and at once sin came into the world. Also, a number of things happened. They became aware of themselves that they were naked which promoted their fleeing to cover themselves with unlasting wears made of leaves. But what is leaf to God's glory? What is human shelter to God's shelter? What is human cover to the one God provides? Sin brings people into shame and guilt. Adam is a typical example. When God visits and calls out, he was nowhere to be found. The man who would rejoicingly and confidently meet God before had gone to hide himself because of sin consciousness. Is God speaking to someone there? God is also saying, "where are you?" I expected you to be here, to be in my presence like Elijah and other men of fellowship stand in the Bible. However, where are you? Where have you gone? What has displaced you? What are you beating yourself over that you have done? What has happened and broken the fellowship between us?
Or is it that you have relocated to a place I didn't author? Have you travelled abroad out of popularity and pressure when your Shepherd didn't lead you there? And now He comes meeting an empty space!
I pray for you that you'll not have disappeared when God is coming to inspect or reckon with you where He had put you. Some would have left where God was coming to at such time. It'll be a great disappointment. God is calling and asking, "brother/sister, where art thou?" Is your feet still planted in the house of the Lord or... Do you still journey with those who says, "I am happy when they say, "I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD or..." (Psalms 122:1). Answer those questions and resituate yourself in God's presence and will this once. Don't do anything or go anywhere that would be tantamount to breaking the circle God draws for you. For those who do, the voice they hear is such questioning their displacement and saying, "where art thou?" That's nothing but a disappointment!
PRAYER: I refuse to be removed where God has put me. Anything creating sin consciousness in me, may I mark them and have them dealt with.
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Ephesians 5:22-6:1-9 & Isaiah 29-30
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