This personal and pointed question is the first one recorded that God ever asked of man, and it is the first question He puts to individual men and women today. It simply means, ‘‘How do you stand before God and in the light of eternity? What is your spiritual condition?’’ The circumstances are clearly outlined in Genesis 3:1-19, and the fact that it is God Himself who asks the question makes it vitally important that we face up to it, and answer it honestly. When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. 34 “Where have you laid him?” he asked. “Come and see, Lord,” they replied. 35 Jesus wept’ (John 11:33-35).

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But, thankfully, God goes after us. And so we see here not only the sinner’s guilt, but also ... B. God’s gracious seeking. How we utilize God’s light, is totally upon us. Like in the presence of a bulb’s light, it is upto us whether we use the light to read religious books or to play cards and gamble. Moreover, the light neither rewards us for using it to do good things nor does it punish us for doing bad things, in its presence, isn’t it? Similarly, God does not have to come to punish us, it is our own deeds based on which Nature rewards or punishes us. Thus, to conclude: God knows that as humans we’re weak and frail. He knows we need help. He wants to offer that to us. Yet it’s up to us to receive it. And if we think He’s mad at us, then that’s a lot harder to do.There are only two creations –- the old and the new. Adam is the head of the old creation, but the Lord Jesus is the head of the new creation. All who belong to the old adamic creation are spiritually dead and doomed. When Jesus came it was to live the life that we have failed to live, to die the death that we deserved to die, and to rise again as the head of a new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17). “”Where are you?”” –- ““in Adam”” or “”in Christ”?” When frustration and anger rise up within you … ignore those two emotional bullies and follow the truth of the Word of God.

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The facts are that politics are nasty, the pandemic is relentless, that isolation is destructive and that the economy is broken. On his arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. 18 Now Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem, 19 and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them in the loss of their brother. 20 When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary stayed at home. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.” – Psalm 23:4 You must have heard people complain, ‘What have I done wrong? Why is God giving me so much of pain and suffering?’ This is because they are of the belief that ‘God is the creator of this world and He is the one who runs the world. Nothing in this world happens without His wish, and therefore directly or indirectly He is the one behind all my miseries.’Jesus asked for the stone to be moved. Martha was concerned that the tomb was going to be opened; the stench of death would fill the air. Yet Jesus said to remove the stone. It’s only after the stone was removed that Jesus called out Lazarus’ name and Lazarus, by the power of God, walked out of the tomb alive. This is the hardest part, isn’t it? When life is hard, when things are not working out, when things are difficult & everything that could go wrong does go wrong… and the hardest part is just not knowing. Not knowing where God is. Not knowing how this is going to work out.

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True spiritual healing and spiritual victory over sin and death will happen when we are spiritually vulnerable and allow Jesus to access our hearts. We must allow the Holy Spirit access to our hearts and to uncover sin. You may not smell the spiritual deadness but it is real for those who do not know Jesus as Lord and savior. You may be afraid to roll away the stone and think it’s too late for Jesus to help. It’s not too late, give Jesus access to whatever is bothering you today. Man may seek to hide from God, but the relentless “Hound of Heaven” goes after him. God calls to Adam and asks the first question attributed to God in the Bible: “Where are you?” (3:9). Whenever God asks a question, it is not to gain information. God knew exactly where Adam was. He asked the question to make Adam think. If you had a friend coming to your house for the first time and he called and said that he was lost, you would ask, “Where are you?” If he can tell you where he is, you can tell him how to get to your house. You’ve got to know where you are before you can receive directions to where you need to be. Mary and Martha were emotionally in different places. Martha ran to Jesus, Mary waited. Yet they both spoke the same words to Jesus. “ Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” No, the light does not ‘do’ any work, but without it, we cannot do anything in the dark. Just like the bulb provides light in the room, similarly the Soul i.e. God provides light to every living being. God’s role is to do nothing but to give light (knowledge) to every living being. The Lord will accomplish what concerns me; Your lovingkindness, O Lord, is everlasting; Do not forsake the works of Your hands.” – Psalm 138:8

When the Lord finds Adam, Adam admits his fear. But notice what he says (3:10): “I was afraid because I was naked.” Not, “because I sinned,” but, “because I was naked.” He had been naked every other time the Lord had walked with him in the garden. The problem wasn’t his nakedness, but his sin. But the real problem was, and still is, it is a fearful thing to be exposed as a guilty sinner in the presence of God. And so instead of coming to God, who can deal with our sin, we run, foolishly thinking that we can hide from His omnipresent gaze. But God came graciously to Adam with a question designed to make him think about where he was: “Where are you, Adam? Look at yourself, hiding behind that tree. Look at those silly fig leaves. Why are you there?” No sinner seeks after God. He graciously seeks hiding sinners. Once God finds the hiding sinner, grace does not stop. 2. God graciously confronts the guilty sinner (3:11-13). If you withdraw your worship when God doesn’t answer, what does that say about who is really the god of your life?