Saturday, June 2, 2007

Genesis c.2

Gen 2:25 Although the man and his wife were both naked, they were not ashamed.

The second chapter of Genesis is the continuation of the creation. I picked the last verse of the chapter as the devotion verse because it summarizes what made man close with God before the fall—their nakedness. There is a deeper more spiritual meaning of nakedness than being nude or clotheless, it is spiritual as well as physical purity, naiveté in worldly things; humanity is bared of all their pretensions—childlike.

This is what we must become in the eyes of God before we can worship him, we must become childlike again in order to be with God to understand God and to receive his grace of Salvation, to be child like in faith, to be naked of sins, to be washed by the blood of Christ.

Mar 10:15 I assure you that whoever does not receive the Kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.

Humanity can never return to his nakedness like his state before the fall, but God in his infinite love and wisdom made it possible and made it happened by the cross.

Nakedness. The feeling of absolute dependence on God.

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