No Escape From God
The folly of sinners, to think it
either possible or desirable to hide themselves from God: can they conceal
themselves from the Father of lights? Ps 139:7, &c.; Jer 23:24. Will they
withdraw themselves from the fountain of life, who alone can give help and
happiness? John 2:8.
The fear that attends sin. All
that amazing fear of God's appearances, the accusations of conscience, the
approaches of trouble, the assaults of inferior creatures, and the arrests of
death, which is common among men, is the effect of sin. Adam and Eve, who were partners in the sin,
were sharers in the shame and fear that attended it; and though hand joined in
hand (hands so lately joined in marriage), yet could they not animate nor
fortify one another: miserable comforters they had become to each other!
What was the effect and evidence
of their fear: They hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God and got
themselves a sad change! Before they had sinned, if they had heard the voice of
the Lord God coming towards them, they would have run to meet him, and with a
humble joy welcomed his gracious visits. But, now that it was otherwise, God
had become a terror to them, and then no marvel that they had become a terror
to themselves, and were full of confusion. Their own consciences accused them,
and set their sin before them in its proper colours. Their fig-leaves failed them, and would do
them no service. God had come forth against them as an enemy, and the whole
creation was at war with them; and as yet they knew not of any mediator between
them and an angry God, so that nothing remained but a certain fearful looking
for of judgment. I commanded thee not to eat of it, I thy Maker, I thy Master,
I thy benefactor; I commanded thee to the contrary."
And God said unto the woman, what
is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, the Serpent beguiled me, and I
did it. Read Genesis 3:13Bless God for His word today.
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