The Path To Redemption

And they heard the sound of the LORD God  walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the trees of the garden.
Genesis 3:8 NKJV

Ever had that feeling where you just knew you'd done wrong and all you wanted to do was hide?  There's a popular airline commercial featuring people in awkward situations along with the catch phrase "Wanna get away?"  Well, that's exactly what Adam and Eve wanted to do that day in the garden, they just wanted to get away, to hide themselves from God.  See, sin had just entered mankinds consiousness, now along with it came its byproducts guilt and shame.  In one instant, satan had managed to drive a wedge between God and man.  Sure, Adam and Eve had relented and taken of that forbidden fruit, but it was their adversary who had initiated those fateful events.  Despite this setback, I submit that even this was part of our Lords grand plan for us.  How could a totally omniscient God  not know that his loved creation would one day turn from him, requiring his intervention of redemption?  If  we believe that God was there from the begining and that he knows all, then we must accept the fact that he was aware of our sin condition before he created the world.

All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
Isaiah 53:6 NKJV

In  the 53rd chapter of Isaiah, long before his birth in Bethlehem, the prophet tells us about the key to Gods redemption of his creation.  The iniquity of all mankind would be placed on the shoulders of one man.  Could the sin of the entire world be borne by just one man?  For anyone who would doubt this, I submit to you the miracles of our Lord God.  Pharoh doubted God, but was made to believe.  It was the Lord God who guided his people, the Isrealites, through the desert after delivering them from the armies of the Egyptions.  What about the greatest miracle of all, the creation of the world?  Yeah, if anyone could pull off the redemption of all mankind it's God.   I believe these events were set in motion even before time began.  God had a plan to reconcile us to himself once and for all.  That close relationship that Adam and Eve shared with God in the garden is available to us today through the shed blood of jesus.  

Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we also have access  by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Romans 5:1-2 NKJV

~Scott~