Who Told You That You Were Naked?

Yesterday during an AWESOME sermon by my pastor and reading from Genesis 3; verse 11 jumped up, sat in my lap and stared at me with googly eyes. To be completely honest I am going to have to go back and listen to the podcast to catch the last 5 or so minutes of teaching because I was slapped so hard in the face by this verse I couldn’t pay attention. Maybe it was the way he was teaching or just the all out depth of The Fall or maybe it was one of those moments when God gives you tunnel vision to make you see what He has been telling you all along.

 

Chapter 3, beginning in verse 8.

As God is was walking in the garden during the cool part of the day……

Ahhh just picture it, the best Spring/Fall weather we all love, not hot and not cold…Perfect!!!

And because this day was different than any others before it, when Adam and his wife heard God approaching they hid among the other trees in the garden. God called to Adam, Where are you? (Adams reply sends a strong message as well), “I heard you in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.

(Afraid….Fear…Shame…for the first time!?! interesting!!!!!)

God said (to Adam), “Who told you that you were naked?”

The overwhelming way my pastor was exposing the brokenness that occurred in the moment of the fall, opened the curtains so to say and shed a whole new light (for me) on the cunningness, deception, fear, shame, etc. that the enemy brings to us. In that moment I could here God asking me not only who told me I was naked but….

Who told me I wasn’t good enough?
smart enough?
funny enough?
pretty enough?
tall enough?
talented enough?
thin or thick enough?

Who told me I wasn’t worth it?

Who told me I might fail?

Who told me I was too much of this or not enough of that!?!?!!!!!

Who told me???

Who told us, by gosh, God is asking “Who Told You!!!!!!!!!!!!

Because it wasn’t Him!!! He didn’t give us fear nor shame, we have always been enough in His eyes!!!!

All in all, this has made me look at ME as if I am Adam hiding among the other trees, full of shame at all the ways I fall short and all the ways I live as though I am all the things the enemy tells me I am or that I am not. oh there are so many ways I allow the enemys words to overshadow and question what God has clearly stated I am.

Whos opinion really matters?

An even better question…..and God wants to know too….

Who told you that you were naked!!!!