Where are you?

Good Afternoon from Costa Rica!
This is a beautiful evening, my music right now is the locusts, hundreds of them singing praises to the LORD!
I'd be ok if they sang a little lower tone at least! I'm certain GOD has created them for a reason, maybe to teach me patience!

WHERE ARE YOU?
This is the first question we find in the Bible and therefore we should find out why, who said it, who is HE calling, etc.

The story of the BIBLE is GODS story, and somehow, for HIS sake HE allows us to scribble on those sacred pages our story as well. GOD loves it when we stop and look, then HE knows HE has our attention!

So The Story begins with in the beginning GOD... then a page or so into it, GOD creates man and woman, sets them in the Garden of Eden to take care of it. YEP, GOD didn't intend for us to shift through life with nothing to do. Idle hands get in trouble.

As the story of GOD unfolds, (Have you ever wondered who was there to record all this, obviously there were no cameras or reporters yet) GOD puts man in the garden, tells them to care for HIS garden and be caretaker of HIS creation. Perfect, all is set, GOD has created a perfect world, the man and woman are happy, GOD walks with them each evening and all is well.
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” Genesis 1:28
The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. ¹⁶ And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; ¹⁷ but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.” Genesis 2:15-16

So GOD gave the humans 2 commands, be fruitful and multiply, and rule over the animals/ then GOD also gave a command, "do not" with consequences, you will die; now the man ate the fruit and didn't immediately die, but our relationship with GOD was severed from that moment on we could no longer talk with GOD face to face.
The commands GOD gave man in the beginning seem like small things; that to us today seem insignificant. BUT GOD doesn't suggest, GOD is our Creator, and HE has a right to our complete undivided attention and obedience.

So GOD said rule over the animals, but one animal was very sly and deceived the woman who in turn deceived her husband, they ate the forbidden fruit, and we've been separated from GOD our Creator ever since.

Now it wasn't eating that was sin, it was disobeying what GOD had said!  

GOD called to Adam and said, "where are you?" Throughout history GOD is still calling us, "Where are you?" GODS voice echoes throughout history; we act like we don't need GOD and have each one of us turned to our own ways. As adam, we have the immediate reaction to answer GOD with, "she did it", "he did it", pointing fingers, when in fact, we are guilty! BUT GOD is faithful to HIS creation, all we have to do is stop, turn to face GOD and HE showers HIS forgiveness on us as we repent and turn to HM! 

So when we are in a crisis, we turn to GOD. If we turn with our whole heart, intent to KNOW GOD, HE turns to us and shows how HIS everlasting love will never change for HIS creation. GOD is just a righteous and so until we repent GOD has limited himself to not helping us. But the moment we repent and turn to GOD, HE comes to our rescue!

WHERE ARE YOU? Answer GOD now and turn in repentance to GOD now before the door closes and time runs out!


JESUS BLESS YOU! Franklin Evelyn Mary & James