What have you done?

Genesis 3:13

Our deepest problem is not that we do bad things but that we worship the creation over the Creator (see Rom. 1:25). Our sin is that we chose our own way over our Father’s way. When God asks the question, “What have you done?” this is what we have done. We simply choose the wrong things, and we keep on choosing the wrong things. We are compulsive in our choosing of the wrong things. We choose to nitpick an argument instead of letting love cover a multitude of sins. We choose to ignore the suffering of others because of how it will inconvenience us. We choose to marginalize those who are different instead of drawing them close and trying to understand them. On and on it goes. Our love is not insufficient but rather disordered.

God did not want Adam and Eve to merely acknowledge their eating of the fruit, he wanted them to acknowledge that they chose their own way over his way. They chose to obey their own impulses rather than obey God. They chose to love the wrong things.

When God asks you the question, “What have you done?” he is not asking for the specifics of your sin. He wants to know whether you know how deep and wide your sin has separated you from him. It’s not the end of the story. Far from it! It’s the beginning of the story of being known by God and knowing him.

Can you name some wrong paths you’ve taken in life?