Remember that horrible sin I wrote about last week?
You know, that bad thing that you would never want anyone to know about.
That bad thing that you want suppressed and never surfaced again.
Not to mention, the everyday… shall I say… shortcomings. (Complaining, grumbling, yelling, anger, rage, potty mouth, critical and judgemental thoughts – just to name a few.)
Why am I bringing these back up? There’s a reason. Do you remember what Adam and Eve did after they bit the apple? They felt ashamed and embarrassed. They knew they had disobeyed God. So they “sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.” (Genesis 3:7)
Often we still try to make modern day fig leaves to cover our sins before God. We’ll use the fig leaf of: the good person rule; philanthropies; environmental green-living; religion and morality. However, there are no fig leaves big enough to hide our sin from God.
Scriptures says, “Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of Him to whom we must give an account.” Hebrews 4:13
God sees everything. Even those secret sins and the secret sins of the heart. Yikes!
When Jesus went to the Cross to bear your sins and mine, He didn’t have any ‘fig leaves’ to cover Himself. He was uncovered and bare before the eyes of God.
Most of the pictures we see of Jesus on the Cross, He’s covered with a loin cloth around His waist. In actuality, He was naked.
When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took His clothes, dividing them into four shares, one for the each of them, with the undergarments remaining. “Let’s not tear it,” they said to one another. “Let’s decide by lot who will get it.” This happened that the Scripture might be fulfilled which said, “They divided my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing.” So this is what the soldiers did.
John 19:23-24
Jesus was physically and spiritually naked before God so that you and I could be clothed.
Jesus took the filthy garments of that horrible sin (s) plus the everyday junk we can get ourselves into. And He gave us His perfect, spotless robe of righteousness.
On Judgement Day, you and I will be dressed in His righteousness before God because He wore the disgusting garments of our sin.
Tomorrow: The darkness that fell on the land between 12pm and 3pm. How is this relevant in my life?
You have done it again girl. Wow, you have opened my eyes to a new revelation today. I have never looked at the nakedness either in the Garden or on the cross in that manner, but it is so true. I try and try on my own strength to cover up my sins before God with fig leaves. Thank you for this precious word today.