The Hiding

“Adam, where are you?” God asked.
Adam replied, “I  heard your voice walking in the garden and I hid myself”.
Adam just snitched himself, why didn’t he keep quiet and allow God to keep asking, maybe He’d get tried of looking and eventually go back to heaven. Then Adam would quietly elope with Eve. Instead, he shouted from the bush “Here I am!!!”. That’s weird.
I believe Adam knew of God’s Omniscient nature, and hence understood that God knew where he was hiding…Which leads to the question, “Why bother hiding when you know you’ll be caught?” (Typical childish behavior).

6000 years later, (depending on who you ask), man really hasn’t changed much. We still have the reflex action of running and hiding from God once we do wrong. But the question remains “Why bother hiding?” He knows, why can’t we boldly take a walk with him in prayer and tell him about it?

We’ve been taught over the years to hide stuff (especially our bad actions and thoughts) and we learnt to hide them from everyone including God. So when we feel the throng of sin on the inside of us, instead of running to God and telling Him how we feel and asking for help, we run to the bush, sew a fig dress, put it on and act all holy. So that no one, including God knows our state. How laughable!!!
I believe its time we did some relearning. Jesus said “cast your cares upon me for I care… “. Your cares include your urges, the dark uncommentable thoughts that lurk around,  the strange cravings, the lusts, everything that causes pain/discomfort in some way constitutes a care.
Give it to Jesus, for He cares.Stop running, stop hiding, give up. Take off the fig gown, come to God as you are and bare your heart.
A problem shared, they say, is a  problem half solved. Share with God for He holds the power to solve the remaining half.

So, before God says “Adam, where are you?”. We’ve already run to him saying, “God, I’m right here, I’ve really messed up. Help me”.