Genesis 3:8
And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
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Adam and the woman had chosen to disobey the command of God! The one single thing He had instructed them not to do, to eat from the tree in the middle of the garden, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The consequence for listening to and being swayed by the serpent, the subtle father of lies, was shame and death and eviction from their perfect life and home.

Their shame caused them to hide their nakedness which had not been an issue at all, and then to hide from the Lord God. The first result of their action was division! They were separated from God and each other. Adam now blamed everybody else, everybody in sight, for his own act of disobedience: Starting with accusing God saying it was His fault, before moving on to —‘The woman you gave me, she gave me the fruit to eat.’ It was her fault. Then the woman blamed the serpent: 'The serpent deceived me and I ate'—it was his fault {Gen.3:12-13} That day was as God had said, the day that they died, for death is separation from God!

And so the history of man began and it is still the same old story right up to this day. Sin will still separate us from the Lord {Is.59:2}, who is life. And human nature will still place the blame everywhere but where it belongs, in the heart of man—because the heart is more deceitful than all else and desperately sick! {Jer.17:9} It should be no wonder that the first instruction in the New Testament was 'Repent' as both John the Baptist {Mat.3:2} and then Jesus Himself proclaimed {Mat.4:17}. So as I have said so many, many times, "Excuses are the fiery arrows shot from the pits of hell to kill repentance!”

Like Adam and Eve, we cannot fix it. We can, and generally will, try to cover it up and hide it, but we can't fix it. So God our Father sent His Son Jesus, the Carpenter to repair it—to re-pair us with Him. It required the wood of the cross.

“If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
(1 John 1:8-9)

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