Remember to whom you belong

Women’s Ministry Minute

May 12, 2020

With Beulah Reynolds

Remember to whom you belong. . . starting at the beginning. We are all familiar with the story of Adam and Eve; the Fall.  Have you considered knowing God more deeply through this story?  

Let’s pick up the story right after the fruit was eaten. Genesis 3:8. Adam and Eve hear the sound of God’s rustling footsteps walking towards them, bringing a breeze that normally would have swept Eve’s hair across her face.  The sound of her Creator that every day before today’s choice, was someone she wanted to run to.  

~Do you want to run towards God every day?~

Today, that same beautiful sound causes her to hide.  She’s afraid and now knows she is naked. Adam and Eve know they are not spiritually prepared to walk with God.

God called out, “Where are you?”  See what God just did?  He knows what they have done and he walks toward them.

~  He walks toward us.  God knows we’re hiding.  He sees our sin. He can see what it is doing to us. ~

God then asks, “What is this you have done?”(v.13).

God already knows what they have done, and he asks because the acts of confession and repentance are healing.

~Seeing our sin is a gift.~

During our midweeks, we have been praying through Psalms.  David demonstrates how we are blessed through confession and repentance amazingly well. Take a look at Psalm 51.  David turns toward God, after his sin with Bathsheba. David confesses knowing that his sin is against God(v. 4).  Forgive me, he asks “Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be whiter than snow”(v.7);he receives it.  David declares joy and praise because he knows God intimately: “O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise”(v. 15).  

God wants us to tell him our ugly, our awful, and our sin.  He walks toward us.  He lifts up our chin, looks lovingly into our eyes and says: “I LOVE you, knowing everything you have done!”

This is the God to whom you belong!