No Fig Leaves

Genesis 3: 21The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. 22And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” 23So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. 24After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life. Source

It was told that the resources the Lord used to clothed Adam & Eve were the fig leaves and it symbolizes us humans in cursed situations and still hiding from God (as if they can) instead of being bold in repentance of our sins and disobedience against Him. An outside clothed cannot fully change what's within a man.

In our little minds, we can run away from our Creator, hide our inequities, conceal it with following outside rules and human rituals but our hearts are not clothed of true cleanliness, holiness and change. Wearing the fig leaves is a concealment that cannot fully change what's inside us and that is why it's hard to do the will of our Father and obey before. Our hearts are far from Him until we accept not the clothed He put on Adam&Eve but of Christ, the redeemer of both inside out.

For me those fig leaves symbolize masks and curses. They've wore it after the first man and woman were cursed because of what they've done that even the soil, plants and animals were cursed with them. The first creations.

But the good news is that there is a restoration and breakthrough, a resurrection from this curse seeds of first creations and be a new creation.

In Adam we may still have the fig leaves we try to hold onto that we thought can clean us, can hide our errors, can pretend that we are fine with idolizing different traditions and many rules outside but in Christ, He is the gamechanger. He deals first with our whole hearts and sprinkled it with His blood and holiness so we could live wearing the same righteousness He has when He was resurrected regardless of what the world remembers before it happened, before you realize that you are born in heaven and still in the sinful body and generational errors.

No, with Christ we can't just wear fig leaves because He knows and sees what within us more than anyone else, He has that x-ray eyes that we cannot hide in caves and masks anymore. He can see us far beyond the physical and fig leaves we are wearing.

Having a new heart aligning in our Creator doesn't need more fig leaves because we wear Him, He dwells in us, there is no curses in Him as God, where things are all good and all these things are working together for our good!

No more fig leaves of hardened hearts. No more masks in Christ Jesus. In you.

Here's cheering on your unfig clothes,

SuperJulalaine 💜

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