Good Side/Bad Side

The Lord God called out to the man and asked, “Where are you?”

Genesis 3:9 (CEV)

Maybe you don’t feel like you are all that bad. Maybe you don’t care what anyone thinks, you’re just going to do what you want. Or maybe, you’re so ashamed and drowning in guilt, you don’t think anyone can help you. There are a lot of ways people try to ignore their sins and hide from God.

In the book of Genesis, we find the truth of what our Creator God says about our sin. When God first made Adam and Eve, he proclaimed them good. But because God wanted people to have freedom, he gave them the ability to choose between good and evil, otherwise known as free will. Chapter 3 reveals that the first humans chose to disobey God, to sin. That choice opened the door to evil, and the struggle to obey God began.

But God didn’t just let people go their own way. He didn’t give up on us and leave us to destruction. Instead, he called to Adam, wanting him to confess his sin. And throughout the Bible, God worked his plan to bring people out of hiding from their sin and into confession. Through Jesus, God made a way to bring humanity back to a relationship with him with a plan of forgiveness and justice.

Hiding from God doesn’t deal with our sin. The only way to truly take care of it is to confess it to God, ask for his forgiveness, and rely on God’s help to obey his words. God continues to call you. Will you turn to him?

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So, where are you right now? Are you hiding from God? Spend some time thinking it through with the Lord today.

INSPIRATION

“The voice of sin is loud, but the voice of forgiveness is louder.”

—Dwight L. Moody, Evangelist founder of Moody Bible College in the 1800s

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Related passages: These additional verses will help you expand Scriptural knowledge and place on the armor of God’s Word to tackle each day. Swipe to read the passages today.

2 Chronicles 7:14

Psalm 51:4

Romans 3:23

Romans 6:23