This week we begin worship with:
Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses andforsakes them will obtain mercy. Blessed is the one who fears the LORD always,but whoever hardens his heart will fall into calamity.
What did Adam and Eve do when they sinned? They hid.
And 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.
Hiding it attempts to say to others that the sin is not there. But when we say that to God, He knows we are wrong. God really did not have to say:
But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”
God already knows we need help. At the Pool of Bethesda, Jesus knew that for 38 years (v. 5) a man had tried to heal himself (v. 7), But that day Jesus asked:
When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?”
Today, we need to look up from our mat, see Christ's mercy-filled face (rāḥam), and respond, for our verse today tells us that God is always asking 'Do you want to be healed?'.
