God's Love Has Never Faded
God does not desire that we remain in our sin forever. These verses show us more than simply the punishment Adam and Eve’s sins evoked. They show us an act of God’s love and mercy. God drove them from the Garden, not because His love for them was lost, but because His love for them demanded it. God feared they would take from the tree of life and remain eternally in their sins.
God’s love for His creation has never ebbed. Though we are a rebellious and wayward group of children, His love still calls for us, provides for us, and saves us from ourselves. John 3:16-18 says, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him. He who believes in him is not condemned; he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.”
There can never be a person so sinful that God’s love cannot reach them. Because God loves us, He ordains the opportunities for us to see and feel that love. He doesn’t want us to remain in that sin. He will search for us and fight for us. As Jesus explained, “What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go in search of the one that went astray?” (Matthew 18:12) God didn’t want Adam and Eve to remain forever in their fallen state, and neither does He want us to remain there either. It is His greatest desire that we be reconciled through the blood of Christ. If His love for the lost is so great, shouldn’t ours be as well?
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