Hiding Places

Genesis 3:9-12
And the LORD God called to Adam, and said to him, Where are you?…
I. Note here the anticipative sentence of the human conscience pronouncing doom on itself. The guilty rebel hides from the Divine Presence.

II. The inexorable call which brings him immediately into the Divine Presence.

III. The bringing to light of the hidden things of darkness. The soul has many hiding places. There are — (1) The hiding place of self-complacent propriety;

(2) the hiding place of the reasoner;

(3) the hiding place of theological dogmas. But the true hiding place for the soul is Jesus.

(W. Hay Aitken, M. A.)