Every provision and safeguard, God gave to Adam - the first man. Man had no reason to ponder that he might need more, as if he lacked something. Adam had no cause to fear his nakedness for it was a blessing.
Why do we seek for more than God has sovereignly decreed that we have, and that He provides? Because we by sin have come to know ourselves as naked. The same nakedness, which was so beautiful, became shame, for Adam and Eve "saw it" as a lack rather than plenty. Hence, their feeble attempt to cover it.
God asks me, "who told you that you were lacking something? Who told you that I have not provided enough"? And because of our nakedness, which has become sin, God provides the covering. What mercy!
We do not know what is best for us. We know who is best for us. We have eaten from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. We have played God. We have not only eaten the fruit, we have poisoned it. In His mercy, God dresses us, he clothes us in the righteous robes of Christ who always pleases the Father.
Prayer
Lord, I stand before you naked with no clothes for you to approve. But I come to you and ask that you would continually dress me in the finest of Sunday clothes, the garments of Christ's resurrection! By your grace I would see my "wants" for what they sometimes are - a wrong understanding of my nakedness; for I came into this world wearing no righteousness of my own, but live now and will depart in royal priestly robes! Praise be to You, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit!
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I think it interesting that our culture is slowly shedding it's clothes (in a literal sense). It might mean we are collectively embracing the shame we once felt? When God is absent, so is shame, guilt, remorse, etc. I think your devotional here is truly insightful to that point. And it's a shame (pun intended) that we have reached this point in our history.
A shame indeed, and yet perhaps part of the process that is needful.
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