Naked

While in Honduras we had the opportunity go house to house encouraging and sharing the gospel with people that invited us in to their homes. After, we shared with the church testimonies about our experience and how the Lord had worked. One of my teammates was sharing of when this pantless little boy ran up to her and just gave her hug. She went on to say that the Lord taught her so much in that moment; one thing being that God loves us even when we don’t want to put clothes on. What got translated was that God loves us even when we’re naked. Oops. It’s been a little bit of a joke with the team and the guys here at Casa Verde. However, this morning as I was listening to Phil Wickham’s song Eden, I realized the truth in the mistranslation.

I want to see You face to face
Where being in Your arms is the permanent state
I want it like it was back then
I want to be in Eden

To be naked and unashamed
In a sweet downpour of innocent rain
I want it like it was back then
I want to be in Eden

In the Garden, Adam and Eve were completely naked, and unashamed before the Lord. They did not know sin. Right after the fall, however, they saw their nakedness and hid from God. Nakedness is equated with shame, but God does not want us to stay in our shame. He wants to clothe us with his righteousness. As Isaiah said, I will greatly rejoice in the LORD; my soul shall exult in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; he has covered me with the robe of righteousness. (61:10)

We need to come and expose our sins before God, for we are naked and ashamed in our sin. Instead of trying to hide our sin and our nakedness we need to come before our God who loves us and let him dress us with His garments of salvation and His robe of righteousness.