What happens when we upset someone? It creates a distance between us. Perhaps we can heal it, but if we cannot, the distance remains. When Adam and Eve sinned, it separated them from God. That is what sin does: it separates. There can be no friendship between a holy God and those who have turned against Him in sinful rebellion. The first man rebelled. ‘Therefore, the LORD God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken’ (Genesis 3:23). This truth, that sin separates from God, is echoed by the prophet Isaiah many years later when he says: ‘Your iniquities have separated you from your God; and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear’ (Isaiah 59:2). If we will confess our sin, God is faithful and just to forgive and to cleanse us of all unrighteousness.