The Refreshing Wind of the Spirit

Throughout the Bible there are many pearls of wisdom and gems of truth. Look at how similar phrases in these two verses spark insight into God’s abundant grace.

“In the cool of the day.” (Genesis 3:8).

“In the heat of the day.” (Genesis 18:1).

In the first verse Adam and Eve had sinned and then hid from God when He came to walk with them in the garden in the cool of the day. In the original Hebrew "cool of the day” offers connotations of wind and the Spirit, and implies that God would come to them as the wind of the Spirit—the refreshing Wind of the day. But they hid themselves from God because they had sinned. In the second verse the Lord appeared to Abraham in the heat of the day to renew His promise—a son through whom the Messiah would come.

In the heat of day God brought a message of peace that came like a breath of cool, refreshing wind. The Lord delivered a word of peace, a message of grace, a promise of deliverance from the “hot” wrath of God that was to be unleashed the very next day because of the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah’s grievous sins.

 
When Adam and Eve sinned, they hid themselves from the refreshing, cool wind of fellowship. Their sin caused the fall of all mankind. The Lord came to Abraham in the heat of the day to redeem mankind from their sin through the son of promise. This is a "cool," refreshing picture of God’s abundant grace.