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Genesis chapter 3 verse 10 and he said

I heard the sound of you in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked and I hid myself.

This verse is Adam speaking to God after he has fallen into sin.

So what was once a joy,

like the presence of God is now something that Adam is afraid of.

He's afraid, he's hiding from God.

He used to long to enjoy being with God, but now he wants to run from God afraid of God.

This is not the way it was supposed to be.

This is not what God had created Adam to experience and really the same is true in our lives

like God has created us to enjoy his presence to want to be with him, not to run from him, yet the state of our hearts is that's

what we're prone to do. We are all prone, right, to run from God, to turn away from God's ways, to not spend time with Him in His presence.

I mean, how often is it that we wake up in the morning and we go through our day and we don't spend concentrated time with God why is that because

we have a sinful nature in us that is prone to do things our own way on our own and there's all kinds of reasons behind that

but ultimately it comes back to there is something wrong in our relationship with God and we need his grace to overcome that.

We need to be brought back into what we were created for.

Just picture it.

Adam and Eve were once walking with God in the garden just enjoying his presence in perfect

harmony. Don't you want that with God? Don't you want that kind of delight in relationship with God, don't you want that kind of perfect

harmony in relationship with God, where you are experiencing his goodness like every

single moment where you're walking in

perfect communion with him. Oh that's that's what the beginning of creation was

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