Come Out of Hiding
Pixabay What was your first reaction when, as a child, you did something wrong that you didn’t want your parents to find out about? Hide yourself or hide the evidence. Adam and Eve tried that. “ Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves. Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden ” (Genesis 3:7, 8). I always got caught. So did Adam and Eve. On one of the rare occasions that I babysat the pastor’s kids, they behaved badly. When I threatened to tell their father, they pleaded with me for mercy. I granted their request and didn’t tell on them. Several days later I discovered that, burdened with guilt, they confessed what they had done to their father anyway! Adam and Eve got it wrong, and the kids got it right. It’s never good to try to hide our wrongdo...