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Eve didn’t have a word yet for what she felt that day outside the garden. All she knew is what she felt. How the snake had spoken, and she had listened. How she had reached out and grabbed the fruit. How the horror had spread across her heart as she realized what she had done. She didn’t have a word for it yet. We do. It’s called shame.
There are some shames that are inconsequential. There are some that are life changing. There are some shames that we bring on ourselves. There are some that we suffer at the hands of others. We all have shame. Because we all have sin. And we all know, just like Eve knew, that we need to be covered.
I want you to know this in your heart. You are covered. You are covered by so much more than the fig leaves that Eve covered herself with. You are covered with the blood of Jesus. Covered, redeemed, restored, not shamed, but glorified.
Genesis 3:1-7, 21
Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” 2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
21 The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.
