Genesis 3:8,9 - Where are you?

3:8

So sin has changed how a person views themselves, and how we view each other. It also changes, even destroys, our relationship with the Lord. They heard the Lord  God as He was walking in the garden. Instead of running to be with Him, which is how things should be, they hid from the Lord. Again we see these things in our own society. There is distrust of each other, our relationship with ourselves can be deeply conflicted (gender identity disorder is only one example of this), our relationships with each other can be deeply problematic. And we view God as someone to be avoided.

3:9

So man has destroyed his relationship with God by his own sinful actions, but God has not given up on us. “The Lord called out to the man,’Where are you?’”. Sometimes people talk of man’s search for God. This gets it totally the wrong way round, verse 8 and 9 get it the right way about. Man hides from God, it is God who calls after us.