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Write Your Life Forward" Christmas Edition!

Today's Reading

"When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realised they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves. 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. But the Lord God called to the man, 'Where are you?'"​
​(Genesis 3:6-9, NIV)

God's Search For You

The story of sin’s beginning is the story of all of us. In a garden once filled with the perfection of God’s love, humanity chose rebellion over trust, self over surrender. It wasn't a mere little stumble, but a deliberate, decisive step, with sin's echo reverberating through every generation today.

Eve stood before the tree, tempted by the serpent’s cunning words: “Did God really say…?”

The question wasn’t just about the fruit. It was a question aimed at the very heart of God’s goodness, designed to sow doubt: “Is God enough? Can He truly be trusted? Was God holding back? Is there something more… beyond His command, something better, something yet untold?”

And don’t we ask the same?

When life feels barren, when prayers go unanswered, when God’s gifts don’t seem to satisfy—don’t we, too, feel the pull for something more, something other? We want to know, to be known, and to be like God.

Ann Voskamp writes, “Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more.”

The serpent’s whispers were not shouts but sly suggestions: “You will not surely die… you will be like God.”

Eve didn’t have to be convinced; her own desires carried her the rest of the way—a longing for more knowledge, more power, more control.

And isn’t that the truth of it --- the desires we nurse in the quiet corners of our hearts, the ones we think will finally fill us, end up becoming the very things that empty us.

Eve reached, Adam followed, and sin entered the world—not as a single act but as a condition, a fracture that runs deep in every heart today.

Tim Keller frames it simply: “The fulfilment we’ve been looking for—in work, in relationships, in possessions—is actually in the face of God.”

But humanity didn’t just sin—they hid.

Adam and Eve, their eyes suddenly opened to shame, fled from the very presence of the God who made them. They covered their nakedness with fig leaves, trying to mask what only He could heal.

Shame told them they were too broken to be seen, too far gone to be loved. But God’s voice called out, “Where are you?”

God doesn’t leave us in our hiding places.

In the garden, He came searching: “Where are you?”

Not a voice of anger, but one of longing. The Creator of the universe, the One who had shaped them with His hands and breathed life into their lungs, was searching—not because He didn’t know where they were, but because He wanted them to know He hadn’t given up.

Not because He didn’t know what to do, but because He wanted them to know --- His love was still pursuing them.

This is the God who bends low in love, who searches not with condemnation but with compassion, not to abandon, but to win us back into His heart, into a relationship with Him.

Even in their rebellion, God made a way for Adam and Eve.

He clothed them, covering their shame with garments of His own provision. He promised a rescue, a Redeemer—One who would crush the serpent’s head and restore what was lost.

And here is the stunning truth of grace --- even in our rebellion, God searches for us. He doesn’t wait for us to climb back; He steps down, calling us by name.

What began with one man’s disobedience would be redeemed by another man’s perfect obedience.

Jesus, the second Adam, came not to point out our sin but to bear it. On the cross, He took the weight of every rebellion, every misplaced longing, every hiding heart.

And now, the same God who walked in the garden, searching for Adam and Eve, calls out to you: “Where are you?”

Charles Spurgeon captures it well:
​“I will look for you till the eyes of My pity see you. I will follow you till the hands of My mercy reach you, and I will still hold you to My heart.”

God’s pursuit isn’t to shame us but to restore us.

He offers not condemnation but a way back—a rescue plan written in crimson.

That ache in your soul, the one you try to fill with success, relationships, possessions—it’s not for something but Someone.

God offers Himself as the answer to every longing, the healer of every hurt.

The fruit promised wisdom, but God offers something far greater: Himself.

He is enough.

His is the kind of love that leaves you undone. A love that doesn’t stop at the edge of your failures but crosses into the darkest corners to bring you back. A love that whispers, “I am enough. I’ve always been enough.”

He searches for the lost, the broken, the hiding. And when He finds us, He wraps us in the arms of grace and whispers, “You’re mine.”

Even now, He’s searching. Even now, He’s calling. Even now, He’s enough.

Write Your Life Forward

God creates us as something truly special and unique. He made us with the freedom to choose and the ability to serve and love Him. Thank Him for these gifts today and do something creative. Why not try singing a love song to Him or write Him a letter thanking Him for His unconditional, unchanging love?

Love and blessings to you and your family,

Liza

A Family Christmas Get Together

What a voice and what lyrics! See the raised hands at the end? Be mesmerised!​

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