Gen 3:9-13
And the Lord God called unto Adam…..Where art thou?...
And he (the
Lord God) said, Who told thee that thou
wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee
that thou shouldest not eat?......
And the Lord
God said unto the woman, What is this
that thou hast done? ……
The
first three recorded times that God spoke after Adam and Eve had listened to
the devil, their lusts and reasoning, were all questions directed to them. It was not an exclamatory rebuke or a
reminder of the commandment they had broken.
Where, Who, Have You, and What Have You Done. The Lord asks His people where we are all the
time. We end up being in a place He
never intended us to be in. He asks His
people what relationships or words might have led to our sinful choices. He knows that conversations with the enemy,
other people or words we might hear could have contributed to our
rebellion. He asks us whether we have
done something. The Lord knows whether
we have or not. He is seeking for us to
take personal responsibility for our sinful choices and recognize them as
disobedience to His commands and not just choices that leave us with bitter
consequences. Finally He asks, “What is
this that you have done?” Now that we have
come out from hiding, recognized the social factor in our sin and admitted our
own volition, He wants us to take in the greater repercussions we might not
readily recognize in the midst of hiding and blaming. We often think of God as the God of
commandments, but often our God is the God of probing questions.
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