where are you?

A friend if mine wrote this of his blog and it was so good, I thought I would use it today!

These past few weeks Satan has really been successfully putting me down, and hitting me with some pretty strong temptations. I always notice the more that I give in to temptations, the less I ask for Christ's help. I just seem to try to hide myself from Him, because I am so ashamed of some of the things that I do.

My mind tells me that God doesn't want to see my face or hear my voice, because I have sinned against him, but that is exactly the opposite of what God wants. Everyone knows the story of Adam and Eve. They ate the fruit from the forbidden tree and thus sin was born. The part of the story that intrigues me though is what happens next.

"When the cool evening breezes were blowing, the man and his wife heard the Lord God walking about in the garden. so they hid from the Lord God among the trees. Then the Lord God called to the man, "Where are you?" Gen. 3:8 (NLT)

The point of that verse is this: no matter where you are, who you are, or what you do, the Lord our God wants to be with you. He wants to walk with you. He wants to talk to you. He wants to be the one who you go to when you fail, not the one you run away from.

People these days have a twisted idea of how our God works. When you fall into sin, He doesn't sit there on his throne with a stone face, saying "whenever you're ready to love me I'll love you." No when you sin, He calls out to you saying "where are you?" You are His child. His love for you is beyond human ideas and human words. When you do good He loves you. When you sin He loves you. Even if you wanted Him not to love you, you could never make Him not love you. The question is not if He loves you. That's a given. The question is if you love Him, and if you're willing to give Him your sin, your pain, and ultimately yourself. Where are you today?