“Where Are You?”

God’s first question ever to a human being was not for His sake, but Adam’s. We should probably read it as asking something like, “Do you know where you are?” or even “Why are you where you are?” The question is designed to make Adam look at himself with a reflective eye, to consider why he was now wearing leafy garments when before he had been naked, why he was hiding in the Garden rather then standing forth to meet with God, why he and his wife were suddenly estranged from one another, and why he was feeling afraid. God wanted Adam to understand that the changes he had experienced and was now expressing were because of his own unwise, rebellious decision to act against the wisdom and instruction of God. Every one of us confronts this crisis in every aspect of our lives. Everything in