Genesis 3:8a And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day:

We look to the origins of sin as an example of life conditions, but sometimes the most simple of lessons are overlooked in those moments. Here is something I have overlooked for decades.

In the beginning, God came to seek out man.

Because of our failing the opposite is the case, man has to seek God. What was easy and natural in the origins of our creation is now difficult because of what happened back then. It is now no longer within our experience that finding God is as easy as standing still and allowing God to find us.

God sought to restore that original condition. He did that by coming to us once again, in the form of His Son Jesus Christ. We like Adam have hidden our faces from God, knowing we are sinners, afraid. Now, like then He calls out, “Where are you?” God knows where we are hiding, He calls to let us now He is seeking a personal relationship.

I have had many tell me God is not real, or the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob isn’t the One True God. To the ones that say God is not real, I don’t believe in you, does that mean you do not exist? Denial is not a fact, it is a negative and a negative can never disprove a positive. To the other gods, whatever name you call them, did they ever come looking for me? For them? Nowhere in all your history, if you have one, did one of them come looking for you.

To the rest, the ones who do not know but would like to know how God is calling you, look to that part of you that is empty and aching, lonely and unsatisfied, hungry and thirsty for something more.

John 6:26-27 Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled. Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.

Genesis 1:2b And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

From the very beginning of scriptures the Holy Spirit has been associated with water. Many spiritual messages surround events pertaining to water in various forms. The Holy Spirit is not the water, but as in this verse is seen as moving in power and the power is the point of this posting.

My home town has been struck by flooding twice these past two years. The Memorial Day flood two years ago took the dry creek bed of the Blanco River and added forty-two feet of depth. That river only flows because of rain. That flood wiped out trees, bridges, homes and lives. It has taken two years for some people to recover.

This past week this area received from eleven to twenty-two inches of rain in just a few hours. Places without creeks or rivers became lakes and neighborhoods that had never seen a flood were now under water. Roads were torn up, guard rails washed away, cars abandoned and citizens rescued where there should have been dry ground. The homes rebuilt on the Blanco River, that trickle of a stream, were hit again.

Joshua 3:13 And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, that the waters of Jordan shall be cut off from the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand upon an heap.

The power of the Holy Spirit is more powerful than the awesome destructive power of flooding.

The purpose and power of the Holy Spirit is dedicated to one thing, the salvation of souls. More powerful than floods, that power is required to save us from our sins. Yet like that drowning man who refuses a life line because he thinks he can save himself, we cannot, that flood of sin is too powerful for us to swim against. We need the power of the Holy Spirit to save us.

Reach out, reach out to Jesus.