Where Art Thou?

Every January 1st we begin a new year. The beginning of each year is an opportunity to start fresh, to think, and to reflect. I have been thinking about some of the “firsts” in the Bible. Genesis Chapter 3 contains several of them, including:The First Temptation, by the serpent. He “was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made” (Genesis 3:1).The First Sin, when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, in Genesis 3:6. God had warned, “Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die” (Genesis 2:16-17).We could spend our time examining The First Temptation and The First Sin, but there is another “first” in Genesis 3 that is worth considering. It is The First Question in Scripture, found in Genesis 3:9: “And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?”Notice that,I. The First Question in Scripture was as