Everything is perfect. Our days are not too hot, nor the nights too cold. The early morning air has a refreshing briskness to it and the trees have beautiful golden leaves.

But even more beautiful is that we can wake to the voice of God speaking to us through His ancient Words. This is how it was for our earthly ancestors 6000 years ago. In the most perfect world imaginable they heard their God walking one more time towards them in the COOL OF THE DAY (Genesis 3:8a).

Soon winter’s sinful barren wasteland would descend on them. Soon they would spiral all their ancestors into the confusing chaos of sin. As the Apostle Paul would say: “For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. … For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing” (Romans 7:15, 19 ESV)).

Friend, you can either do what Adam and Eve did and hide (Genesis 3:8b) or you can choose to step out into the light (1 John 1:7). Instead of hiding our sins, God promises that if we confess them, He will forgive us (1 John 1:9).