Genesis 3:10 And he said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.”

God told Adam not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Adam disobeyed the one and only command given by God where He said don’t. This is the result of disobedience, fear, vulnerability, and separation.

These are the attributes of all mankind that comes with birth because of original sin. This is what God wants to undo by faith in His Son Jesus Christ. Restoration begins in reverse order, the last becoming the first.

First on the list is restoration of relations with God where we do not have to hide our faces from our God.

Second is losing the sense of vulnerability, that God loves us and wants to protect us.

Third we stop being afraid of our past sins and accept that we can begin again,

Fourth and last because it is the most difficult is obedience.

• Luke 1:35 And the angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God.
• John 3:5 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
• John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
• John 3:8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

I include Luke 1:35 because when we are born again the Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. In John 3:8 we can see that the Spirit comes and goes where it wills, being the third person of the Trinity of God. The power belongs to the Most High, we are not in control of that power.

Having free will is a demonstration of God’s love and trust He has placed in us by faith. Choose to obey and demonstrate to God that His love is doing what He set out to do in conforming us into the image of the Son. Disobey and expect correction, not punishment. 

Revelation 3:19 Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.