Walks with God (Adam and Eve)

In order to understand the story of Jesus saving us from our sin, you have to go back to the beginning, to the first man and woman, Adam and Eve. If you do not know the story, you can look it up in the first book of the Bible Genesis. But basically, Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, thereby disobeying God, declaring their independence from him, and falling into sin, making all of their progeny (us) also subject to this sinful world.

Its often tempting to consider what things would be like today if it were not for Adam and Eve's sin. We would all be innocent, having a perfect relationship with God. In Genesis 3:8, after Adam and Eve have taken the fruit and their eyes have been opened to the concept of sin (because they themselves have engaged in it), it says, “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.”

God was palpable to Adam and Eve. He walked with them in the cool of the day. He spoke, he moved and they heard him audibly.

Eden (the garden Adam and Eve lived) was perfect in many ways. They didn't have to work the land, kill animals, have disease, or die, but the most remarkable thing was that they had a perfect relationship with God.

They walked with him.

This is something amazing. And as heaven will in many ways be a second Eden, something I am looking forward to immensely. To walk with and talk to God. The idea, the concept give me shivers.