The Original Blame Game

Genesis 3:8-13 "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. But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, "Where are you?" And he said, "I heard the sound of you in the garden, and i was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself." He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?" The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate." Then the Lord God said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."

God was walking in the garden...they heard Him, and they hid? This is what sin does in our lives! We let sin in even for a second and we all of the sudden don't want to be in the presence of our Creator.

So this particular passage is a little humorous to me...actually a lot humorous. Just please picture this scenario with me for a second: Adam and Eve are currently wearing loincloths made of leaves and are hiding behind trees..they are "hiding" from God...see how quickly they forgot who God is? They forgot their Creator.

I love what God does. I can just picture Him standing in the garden being like, "really?" So He, for whatever reason, decides to humor them a little, or just humor Himself. "Where are you?" He calls out to Adam. The word "you" in this passage is singular. God is calling out the man of the house, Adam.

Again, just picture this with me. Adam and Eve at this point have probably been shushing each other, as if God didn't know where they were, and then God calls out and Adam decides to answer. I can picture him looking at Eve like, "watch this, I totally know how to word this.." Fail.

Have you ever been called out by your parents and they are this close to catching you and your lying your butt off trying to cover up whatever you have done and you say one wrong thing and your done. This is what happened between Adam and God.

What "tipped", as if He didnt already know, God off? "because I was naked," Just picture Adam after this sentence. I can just see him look at Eve and give that little head nod like, "yeah..what now, Eve?" And then God lowers the boom. You know it when it happens between you and your parents. It's that sinking feeling where your heart is now in your stomach and you are realizing that you just called yourself out and they caught you.

"Who told you that you were naked?" boom. I can see Eve smacking Adam like, "You idiot! We're not supposed to know that we're naked!!"

And here is where the original blame game begins..Adam is caught. So what should any man of the house do when in trouble? Blame it on the wife. "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate." Notice what Adam does here: He's so trapped and caught off guard that he blames not only Eve, but God Himself is now being blamed! Are you kidding me? Picture the angels in Heaven watching this all go down. I can just see their reaction when those words came out of Adam's mouth, "whom YOU gave to be with me," "Oh no he didnt!" and others prolly just got that look in their face where you only show your bottom teeth and suck in air and then you exhale with almost a kissy face...you know the one. I'm sure that at one point God shot the angels a look like, "did you hear what this kid just said to me?"

And can you imagine Eve at this point? Where is her big strong man? Where is her protector? They forgot their Creator and their world is crumbling at their feet.

So God goes along with this blame game and now turns His attention to Eve, who is now scrambling for her words. So she does what any good wife would do, she follows Adam's lead. She could of easily blamed it back on Adam but Eve decides to go a different route. She tries to get the attention off of her and Adam asap. "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."

Eve is a dumb dumb, much like myself. Imagine this conversation, "Well God you see there was this cute little snake thing, Adam thats what you named it right? Anyways, so he was super cute and he just won me over with his charm and well I mean he could talk which was distracting and i just figured that if you made a snake that could talk then he prolly has something important to say and i should listen to him...in conclusion, it is the talking snakes fault, not mine or my idiot husbands fault, but the snake..its definitely the snakes fault..(insert cheesy girl trying to get away with something smile here.)

Where did they go wrong? (besides eating from the tree.)

They ran and literally hid from the Truth. They depended on their own words to get them out of this hot mess.

When we depend on ourselves we fail every time. Every time.

When we hide from the truth we fail every time. Every time.

When we mess up God is there every time. Every time.

He never leaves. Never.
He is waiting for you to just admit that you are wrong and that you need Him.
He has grace to give you. Unending grace.

Grace does not always come without punishment tho..sometimes it does but we rarely ever learn from our mistakes unless there is some sort of punishment.

Adam -->God-->Eve-->serpent....The original blame game: epic fail.

Remember your Creator.