Genesis 3:8-9 English Standard Version

⁸ And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool^[wind] of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. ⁹ But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”

The restoration of relationship to have what we had before the fall of man has everything to do with the title “The Lord God”. Prior to accepting Jesus Christ into our heart, there was the Son of Man, the Jesus that came into the world to save us. God was His Father, not ours. He was the creator of all things but we had no relationship with them.

When we accept Jesus into our hearts by faith this restored relationship is once again as it was in the garden before the fall. Jesus is seated with the Father and they are One. The Lord God is the title of relationship where He is the Lord God of our life in faith. Now as then, He comes to us and calls to us in the cool^[wind] of the day.

This restored relationship is spiritual and He calls to us each morning “Where are you?” It is important to understand that in the spirit, when He calls, it is in the cool^[wind] of the day. Wind is a spiritual sign of the Holy Spirit who has been given to speak truth, He is the Spirit of Truth.

Our minds reason in the world, we calculate, determine, rationalize, and make judgments. When it comes to spiritual truth, it is a knowing by faith and listening to the Spirit of Truth.

There is a difference in worldly perceptions and the truth in God. The world wants to determine for us what is true and does not accept absolute truth. They deny truth because they do not know God.

We know the Lord God in truth.

Romans 12:1-3 English Standard Version

¹ I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. ² Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. ³ For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.

Can we hold on to all the memories of our past and have a renewed mind? We do not think of our thought processes as being new but rather how we were trained to think. Education should teach us how to think, not what to think. It is meant to exercise the mind in reasoning skills, how to gather information and make decisions on life matters.

Truth in life is all about perspective and how we come to the conclusions which form our personal realities. Now that we have entered a spiritual kingdom, truth is no longer a perspective, He is our God.

John 14:6a English Standard Version (ESV) Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life.”

Our mind set must change from determining our own truths to receiving the truth by faith. It is a knowing in relationship and relying on He who is true. The renewed mind is the one that has been restored in relationship that we had before the fall of man.

Genesis 3:8-9 English Standard Version

⁸ And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool^[wind] of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. ⁹ But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”