They already know.
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After Adam and Eve had eaten the fruit, something they were explicitly told not to do, they hid themselves. I can only assume based on my own experience, that their hiding was an attempt to avoid or circumvent the expected consequences.
At some point, we learn that our loving father showed up and asked our sheepish brother and sister where they were. Surely our father already knew the answer to his question. Why did he not just come right out and say, “guys, I know you ate the fruit and I know where you are hiding so why don’t you just come on out.”
I think in part that father wanted to give them the opportunity to be honest with him, to demonstrate their character. After coming out of the bushes with fig leaves covering them, and explaining what had happened, the consequences of their actions were spelled out to them, which couldn’t have been easy for them to hear.
But our heavenly parents knew that Adam and Eve would at some point eat the fruit, the same way I know that if I leave a plate of cookies on the table, my children will invariably partake of them.
But in knowing this, they weren’t blindsided, they already had a plan laid out where all of the mistakes and mess could be cleaned up and ironed out.
I’m certain our heavenly parents know how difficult life is. They know we will sometimes eat the forbidden fruits. I don’t think they shy away from allowing us to experience the consequences of our actions.
But like our first siblings that left that garden all those years ago, our parents offer to us the same thing they offered them; a way to make things better. A way to clean up the mess. A way to become like them.
Our heavenly parents already know the messes we’ve made so let’s stop trying to hide and instead be honest with them and participate joyfully in the process of clean up.
