Saddest Words Ever Spoken: Adam, Where Are You?

My pastor recently preached on the topic of sanctification, and it got me thinking quite a bit about it. While walking the beach and talking to the Lord about it, I looked out at the water and saw a man holding a woman in his arms. What struck me about this was how the woman was completely wrapped around her partner. Every limb was wrapped around him as she nestled her face into the crook of his neck, held in his peaceful embrace. "This is sanctification." You wrapped around me with every part of your being, deriving your very life from me and totally satisfied in that place. She could have been distracted by any number of things, but she wasn't. She was fully his.

The fall of man from the embrace of God is more of a heart wrenching betrayal of love than anything else. I think of God, who is Love Itself, searching for Adam after he turned aside to lies. Adam, where are you? Have you ever had someone hide from you, or felt that they were avoiding you? That hurts, especially when that person is the love of your life. The issue isn't as much about what Adam was doing as much as it is about where Adam was located. Relationally speaking, he had left God's embrace, the only home that he ever knew, to look for enjoyment and security somewhere else, in someone else, or something else.

At bottom, Adam and Eve betrayed the Lord God. Love is ever faithful and unchanging. Betrayal gives up on someone for something else shiny and new that promises happiness and/or protection. Betrayal is the antithesis of love. I have been struck by the words, "On the night of his betrayal" regarding Christ's death. The Lord is emphasizing, through the Spirit-inspired scriptures, that this is all about betrayal. Why did his death have to be facilitated by a major betrayal? His death was not enough; he had to be betrayed unto death. What is the sin of the world other than the betrayal of love? Betrayal is ground zero for the fall of man. Betrayal is the scene of the crime. But Love, ever faithful and unchanging, goes looking for Adam. Love just won't quit. Love is incapable of betrayal or giving up-"love never fails." Love takes Adam's betrayal upon Himself, along with the ghastly penalty, and dies. Come home. I am looking for you at the gate, peering out of the window waiting for you to return to me. I am going to run as fast as I can down the road the second I see you in the distance. Where are you? Adam, where are you?

I believe that Satan never saw this coming. He expected that if he could get Adam to disobey the Lord God, Adam would be forever separated from God. Yet God took that destructive plan and made it into the most glorious story ever told, one that we will be singing for eternity: God is good, and His mercy endures forever. The only ones that will be able to enter into the full rest of God are those who sing this song. This is the meaning of "my song", as in "God is my strength and my song." My song is sung by those who have discovered that God is their salvation, and apart from Him they would be utterly hopeless. My song can only be sung by the poor in spirit, emptied of self, who have learned through many a season of looking to self and other idols common to man, that it is only God's tender, enduring mercies that have given them salvation, for when we were faithless, He was faithful.

(That is the song that Israel will sing in Psalm 118 when a remnant will finally embrace the One who has always embraced them and singing, "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. God is my strength, my song, and is become my salvation (Yeshua). See my other blog on the dream and study of this amazing Psalm. The Feast of Tabernacles is coming!)

And that is where we are now, resting in His embrace with every part of our beings wrapped around Him. Home now.

Sidenote: When the last great American solar eclipse crossed over the U.S. marking a giant X over us, I looked at the Strong's Concordance meanings for the two numbers: the first being the time of the height of the solar eclipse at the start of it... I think it was in Texas, and the last number was the time at which it hit its height over the US at the end. Together, the meaning of those words that correspond to the times (for example 2:35 would be #235 Strongs)... put together the two times meant, "Adam, where are you?" The first word was "Adam" or "dirt, dust" something like that, and the second word/time was "where are you?' That is a call to confession! I hear the same plea from betrayed spouses, please, please just tell me that you did it! We see God saying this to his people in the O.T, just confess that you did it, say that you left me, say it! Confess it and I will cleanse your faithless heart, and give you a new heart of Love.

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