And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day.
This gives the impression that this was an outing that they all enjoyed. That Adam and Eve looked forward to each day.
Can you in your finite mind, imagine what it must have felt like? A time of being in His presence, and just be able converse with the Creator of the Universe.
How they would come running to great Him, and feel the love He had for His creation.
But now a different picture begins to take place, because they had eaten from a tree that God had forbid them not to eat from. They were deceived by a serpent, who told them they could be like God if they ate from it. The serpent had questioned God’s instructions, and gave them cause for doubt.
This time when God called them in the cool of the evening, they hid themselves. They no longer ran joyfully to greet Him. Instead of joy, they felt shame.
Because of His love for us, God provided a way for us to be in fellowship with Him again.
It was through His only begotten son Jesus Christ, who willingly gave His life for us on an old wooden Cross that we might again be in fellowship with God.
Mark 16:6 reads: “He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.