Where Are You?: Genesis 3:8-13

Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

Walking in the garden. The phrase suggests intimacy, routine—as if God often came to walk with his creatures in the evening breeze. This was relationship, not religion. Fellowship, not formality.

But now they hid.

The same trees that had been given for food and beauty became barriers to hide behind. The creatures made for communion with God now crouched in shadows, hearts pounding, desperately hoping the Almighty would not find them.