Where Are You?

"Where Are You?

God asked Adam this question after he and Eve had sinned. God knew exactly where they were and what they had done. God wanted them to acknowledge to Him where they were and what they had done. God asks the same question of us. We serve a God that is completely all-knowing and all-sufficient yet He offers us the chance to share with Him. He wants us to come to Him in all things. He knows them all. But it is different when we choose to bring it to Him.
As we begin to read and study God's Word, I feel Him asking each of us to acknowledge to Him where we are. Where are you in your journey with Him? Where are you in life? Do you find yourself lonely, overwhelmed and distant from God? Or do you find yourself in obedience to Him, content and secure in your relationship with Him? We all have different things going on in our  lives. Each of us are in different stages of life and in different places in our walk with Him. Yet, we serve the same God who meets each of us RIGHT WHERE WE ARE. He makes a way to us. Just as He walked with Adam and Eve in the garden, He wants that same sweet fellowship with us.  Often we are reluctant to take part in the fellowship. Maybe sin has us hiding from God and trying to cover our shame in our own way. Maybe we just want to do things our way.
In Genesis 9:1, God tells Noah and his family to "go, be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth."
Yet in Genesis 11:1-9, we read about the people choosing to build a city and tower to "make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth." (v 4b)
They were determined to do what they wanted. They were in direct disobedience to what God had told them to do. So the "Lord God came down" (v 5) and confused their language and scattered them all over the earth. (vv 7-8)
God's will is going to be done. He will accomplish His purpose. God invites us to join Him in His work but we have a choice to participate willingly. God wanted the people to scatter. They refused. He scattered them anyway.  I wonder what blessings they gave up in being unwilling to obey... I wonder what blessings I give up when I refuse to obey... I know that it breaks my fellowship with the Lord. He doesn't need me to do anything for Him but allows me the opportunity to join Him and be a part. God is God and He will accomplish His purpose.
Isaiah 46:9-11,
 Remember the former things, those of long ago;
    I am God, and there is no other;
    I am God, and there is none like me.
10 I make known the end from the beginning,
    from ancient times, what is still to come.
I say, ‘My purpose will stand,
    and I will do all that I please.’
11 From the east I summon a bird of prey;
    from a far-off land, a man to fulfill my purpose.
What I have said, that I will bring about;
    what I have planned, that I will do.

God desires a people to that are set apart and devoted to His Name. We need to be about making much of Him and His Name, not making a name ourselves. Often we are busy doing our own thing, building "towers" to make a name for ourselves so we can keep doing our own thing. Let's be about making His Name famous.

Here is this week's reading:
Jan 5... Gen 15:1-21; 16:1-16; 17:1-8, 9-14,15-27
Jan 6... Gen 18:1-15, 16-33; 19:1-29, 30-38; 20:1-18; 21:1-7
Jan 7... Gen 21:8-21; 22-34; 22:1-24; 23:1-20; 11:32; 24:1-67
Jan 8... Gen 25:1-4; 1 Chron 1:32-33; Gen 25:5-6, 12-18; 1 Chron 1:28-31,34; Gen 25:19-26, 7-11
Jan 9... Gen 25:27-34; 26:1-35; 27:1-41; 28:1-5
Jan 10.. Gen 28:6-22; 29:1-31; 30:1-24
Jan 11.. Gen 30:25-43; 31:1-55
Jan 12.. Gen 32:1-32; 33:1-20; 34:1-31; 35:1-27