God is in the clothing business. You won't find His creations with designer labels in shopping malls because He specializes in custom-fitted apparel.
"The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them." (Genesis 3:21)
We are God's most personal creation. All else that He created came into existence through a word of command, but we alone were made by God's own hands. We were the most carefully and lovingly made of all His creation.
Because of that fact, our ancestor's disobedience had to have been especially heartbreaking to our Father. His prized, flawed creation was worthy of being discarded and consigned to the celestial scrap heap. But rather than abandoning His creation, God chose instead to protect and provide for them in their sinful, fallen state. And He's been doing that ever since.
"In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace" (Ephesians 1:7)
"having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him." (Romans 5:9)
Our true nakedness is not physical but spiritual. Our ancestor's shameful nakedness was divinely covered by animal skins, but ours is covered by the blood of the perfect sacrifice of His Son. And it is that covering that provides us with the hope of one day "walking in the cool of the day" (Genesis 3:8) with the Lord God.
The Garden of Eden is a distant memory and a long-lost paradise, but we're headed back. The promised One has crushed the head of the serpent (Genesis 3:15) and covered us in His blood, and set us on the road to the New Eden. We're going home.
The day is coming when the curse will be fully removed from the earth and it will again be fully productive and beautiful, but we're not there yet.
"For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now." (Romans 8:22)
We're living east of Eden today but we're headed back, covered with garments of righteousness through Jesus our Lord. Stay "dressed up" today in the most beautiful garments ever as you travel the road to the New Eden.
Steve
"The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them." (Genesis 3:21)
We are God's most personal creation. All else that He created came into existence through a word of command, but we alone were made by God's own hands. We were the most carefully and lovingly made of all His creation.
Because of that fact, our ancestor's disobedience had to have been especially heartbreaking to our Father. His prized, flawed creation was worthy of being discarded and consigned to the celestial scrap heap. But rather than abandoning His creation, God chose instead to protect and provide for them in their sinful, fallen state. And He's been doing that ever since.
"In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace" (Ephesians 1:7)
"having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him." (Romans 5:9)
Our true nakedness is not physical but spiritual. Our ancestor's shameful nakedness was divinely covered by animal skins, but ours is covered by the blood of the perfect sacrifice of His Son. And it is that covering that provides us with the hope of one day "walking in the cool of the day" (Genesis 3:8) with the Lord God.
The Garden of Eden is a distant memory and a long-lost paradise, but we're headed back. The promised One has crushed the head of the serpent (Genesis 3:15) and covered us in His blood, and set us on the road to the New Eden. We're going home.
The day is coming when the curse will be fully removed from the earth and it will again be fully productive and beautiful, but we're not there yet.
"For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now." (Romans 8:22)
We're living east of Eden today but we're headed back, covered with garments of righteousness through Jesus our Lord. Stay "dressed up" today in the most beautiful garments ever as you travel the road to the New Eden.
Steve
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