But what was God feeling as he inquired, “Where are you?” What must it have been like to have known, to have felt the rejection from humans? It is not hard to read this story and immediately conclude that the humans were rejecting God—for indeed they were. It may take more work for us to imagine that God actually felt that rejection, and though it did not keep him from continuing to seek us out, we have no reason to doubt that that moment was the first of many moments that would culminate on Good Friday. Only when we see Jesus do we begin to get a picture of what God may have been experiencing
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