12/11/2025
Do we attempt to hide who we really are from God by covering ourselves in some fashion? Do we pretend to be spiritually in control when in fact we are anything but? Do we tuck our sins away within us where we feel they are safely hidden from God’s eyes? Who are we fooling except ourselves when we believe that God doesn’t know our deepest secrets and see us for who we are? He is God, and knows our every thought and sin, so we shouldn’t be reluctant to bare ourselves openly before him and seek His help in dealing with our nakedness and imperfections; He has known them all along... even those we have tried to hide away in the furthest recesses of our hearts.
“Like the glaze covering an earthen vessel are fervent lips with an evil heart. Whoever hates disguises himself with his lips and harbors deceit in his heart; when he speaks graciously, believe him not, for there are seven abominations in his heart; though his hatred be covered with deception, his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.”
Proverbs 26:23-26 ESV
There is no hiding place from God our Father. He sees through us like a clear glass, and no false reflection can conceal us behind a mirror of lies. We are an open book, and every page is at His command. So don’t deceive yourself... speak frankly and openly to our Father.
“But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the Lord, and be sure your sin will find you out.”
Numbers 32:23 ESV
Yet, from the very beginning in the Garden of Eden, we have sought to hide our fallen selves both physically and spiritually. Adam and Eve attempted to hide themselves and their nakedness from God by cowering among the trees, and covering their nakedness with leaves, then they proceeded to blame their disobedience on another; Adam blamed Eve, and she in turn blamed the serpent.
“And he said, "I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself." He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?"”
Genesis 3:10-11 ESV
God knew their shame and made clothes for them, and they were thus clothed by Him for the first time. God didn’t do this for himself, but because He sensed their shame and dis-ease at being revealed to Him in their nakedness. Don’t we find it interesting that they could stand naked before one another comfortably, but not before God? They had separated themselves and now stood apart from Him.
“And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.”
Genesis 3:21 ESV
So, to this day we put on the clothes that God provided us to cover our shame, but despite our garments, God still sees us naked, and that is how we should pray. We should pray as though we were naked before Him... no secrets or hidden sins, but with all of our iniquities laid shamefully and remorsefully bare before Him. Is this how we pray? How about being physically bare? Have we ever prayed in the bath or shower? How did it make us feel to acknowledge His presence as you stood there completely exposed and naked? Can we ever return to the original innocence of Eden?
“For in him [Jesus Christ] all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.”
Colossians 1:19-20 ESV
Prayer:
Father, I thank you for clothing me to hide my nakedness because it shows you care about my feelings and shame. I thank you for your Son Jesus Christ who has made it possible for me to return spiritually to Eden where I can lay my sins down at your feet. Merciful Father, I thank you for the forgiveness you have made possible through your Son Jesus, and the grace that flows through Him which allows me to stand before you unclothed, with every expectation of being seen as pure… even in my nakedness. Father you created man naked, innocent, and blameless, and through your Son Jesus you have reconciled me to you. Holy, Holy, Holy, are you our God who was, and is, and is to come. Holy are you who loved us in the beginning, loves us now, and will love us forevermore. Praised be your name Lord for not even man’s sin can stand in defiance of you, and for this, your forgiveness, we give you all the honor and glory for our eternal innocence; naked and without shame.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Amen!
“And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.”
Genesis 2:25 ESV
“he [Jesus Christ] has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him,”
Colossians 1:22 ESV
Rich Forbes