The statement “They knew they were naked” was taken from a verse in Genesis chapter 3 after the serpent deceived the woman, and she and her husband ate of the fruit, which they were told not to

You see, the instruction to Adam in chapter two was “the day you eat of it( the fruit), you shall surely die.”

In chapter three, when they ate the fruit,  immediately,  their eyes were opened.  This indicates the moment that these spirit led beings switched from the spiritual to the physical.

They became separated from God spiritually and became physically aware, their senses taking over their being. And how can you tell a ‘senses’ led individual? By what they see and perceive to be true.

Adam and his wife were enjoying this beautiful life in the garden of Eden, never once seeing themselves any other way apart from how God saw them. Did you know that after their disobedience was not the first time their nakedness was mentioned?

No, in fact, right after they were introduced, it says:
And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Genesis 2:25 NKJV

Yet, straight after their disobedience, it says:
At that moment, their eyes were opened, and they suddenly felt shame at their nakedness. So they sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves.
Genesis 3:7 NLT

Adam and his wife were naked all along, yet saw each other the way God saw them but as soon as they stopped seeing from God’s lens and started seeing from the flesh, they began to see each other’s flaws,  inadequacies and their  nakedness became a source of shame rather than something to embrace.

Today, if you look at people and all you  see are flaws, if nobody is good enough or meets your standards of expectation, the real question would be, what lenses are you looking through? Are you looking at others through your nakedness, or are you looking at them through God’s lens.

Thank God that we were not left in the fallen state of Adam and Eve, God rescued us by sending Jesus to redeem us so that we now have the opportunity to go back to the way it was before the fall.

He ( Jesus) died for everyone so that those who receive his new life will no longer live for themselves. Instead, they will live for Christ, who died and was raised for them.
(2 Corinthians 5:15)

The above verse says those who receive God’s new life no longer live for themselves… and because they no longer live for themselves,  they stop evaluating others from a human point of view ( verse 16) .

How you evaluate other people shows your point of view, your perspective. This is not to say we become weaklings and don’t have standards or boundaries, no,on the contrary, we see things for what they are and call them out but not from a place of judgement and condemnation but from a place of love and grace.

We are able to separate people from their actions rather than label them based on their actions.
The human point of view is mostly judgemental, but the God point of view is always gracious.

People’s vulnerability is not something to make fun of. There is no fun in tearing people apart and shaming them. Some things definitely need to be exposed, especially if it is harmful to the person involved or people around them, but the intention of the exposure is never to shame but always to restore.

When walking with God, Adam and his wife’s knowledge of their nakedness was their strength and bond because their dependency was on God but when they walked outside of God’s direction,  their nakedness became a source of shame which they attempted to cover through labour.

What are you working so hard to hide? Why not surrender it to God right now and watch His love take the sting away.

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