Seize the Moment – Day 380
A Walk in the Garden!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Thursday, April 1.
Today is more than April Fool’s Day; it is Maundy Thursday, which is the day we remember Jesus instituting the Lord’s Supper and giving us the new command to love one another as God first loved us. Join us tonight for a special communion service at 6:30.
Did you know that God desires a personal relationship with you?
We see this from the very beginning. Genesis 3:8-9 describes a very tragic scene in a very relational way: “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. Then the Lord God called to the man, and said to him, ‘Where are you?’”
God knew exactly where the first humans were, but was inviting Adam and Eve into a conversation with Him. Why? Because it had become their habit to walk together in the garden. How do I know this? Because like a child who knows the familiar sound of her parent’s footsteps, so Adam and Eve knew the sound of the Lord God’s footsteps.
But this time they hid from God because they had committed the first sin—Adam and Eve had disobeyed God.
Do you know what sin does? Sin breaks relationships!
But brokenness is not God’s desire for you and me. God’s desire for us is to have a personal relationship with Him. That is why He sent His Son Jesus Christ—to once and for all deal with the sin issue and restore us back into a right relationship with God.
Seize the moment and walk with God through a personal relationship with Jesus. This is why Jesus came, so that we can love God and one another as God intended from the very beginning.
“Where are you” in your relationship with God today?
Let’s recite this week’s memory verse from Exodus 6:7a, “I will take you as my own people, and I will be your God.”