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FIG LEAVES CANNOT COVER YOU - Where Art Thou Series 005?
Genesis 3:7, KJV
"And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons."
There are those who at this time God's Word is coming are trying to experience what they used to experience while with God - standing before Him in fellowship.
When Adam and Eve sinned and came to the knowledge of it, they were full of guilt and shame. Without God rebuking them or calling them to accountability, they reckoned they were wrong and so fled from His face. It takes God to call and ask where they are. Their response (in what Adam gives) hints at something having gone wrong with them.
Genesis 3:9-10, KJV
"9 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? 10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."
When the Bible says in Proverbs 28:1, "the wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion", Adam's response and their run-away act vividly portray that. When you sin and lose your righteousness sense; your conscience immediately testifies to you of sinning and your heart being conscious of your wrong naturally puts you at the disadvantage of being confident. You'll begin to fret, shiver like a kitten. However, they just didn't flee also. They sought and tried looking like they were before they discovered themselves to be naked. So, what did they do? They sew fig leaves as clothes. That is the nakedness God's glory covered before sin came into their world to expose and prove them as nobodies who can't live without being covered (unfortunately with something physical and unlasting). Have you observed that when people stumble at sin or trespass, one major thing they are tempted to do is to cover themselves by covering or hiding their sin. That's what Adam and Eve tried out here. They thought the covering of their physical nakedness would fix things and return them to their status before sinning. However, that helps nobody because leaves can never substitute God's glory or provision for atonement for sin! Instead of covering your sin, the Bible admonishes the opposite.
Proverbs 28:13, KJV
"He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy."
While in their glory days, they were naked and were not ashamed. Why? Because there's a supernatural clothing that they did not have its consciousness that clothed them, therefore preventing against the knowledge of "I'm naked, now inferior and affected. As such, I'll need a make up or help which my own hand can provide." Frantic racing and dashing all around to keep things secret (like it never happened or like before it happened) is an act of a man who doesn't want to be discovered. To him, he'll lose face and be embarrassed. It would be better if the earth can swallow him alive but that won't even happen!
Oooh God, help those who are naked yet are sewing fig leaves (a solution that won't cure it to attempt it). Convict them that they'll need to jeopardize the pleasure of sin and find their way back to you to be properly clothed. Would you open their eyes to see this Lord? Would you wash them in the slain blood of your only Son and cover them with the garment of righteousness that they might take their sit and place as once was lost but now is found? The animal from which God sources the skin by which He eventually clothes Adam and Eve foreshadows the death of Jesus that takes away all sins (Gen.3:21). He's the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world (John 1:29).
If you'll come under His claims, you'll be sheltered! Your own righteousness is as the filthy rag at best. Take Christ's and be all new! Turn to page one to see how to be born again.
PRAYER/ACTION: Bow your head and repent and God would do as we have asked.
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