GOD WILL COVER YOUR SHAME

Reflections from the Book of Genesis Chapter 3

Genesis chapter 3 is the saddest but also the most hopeful part of the Bible. We see how Satan succeeded to make the first man and woman disobey God. It was no ordinary order for God to ask them not to eat of the tree but it was a matter of their loyalty to God.

In my reading of this chapter, I was stuck on the entrance of sin and the dread of sin. However, there is a missing part in my reading, the missing part is to discover what God has done in the chapter.

Answering the question of what God has done opens me to the greatness of God’s love for man. God never blamed man. He looked for them and dialogued with them. He gave them the chance to be heard and to present their case. God was not even angry at them. Actually, He was prepared for this to happen. He already planned for the solution even before they were created.

God understood that man was under Satan’s attack and oppression because Satan really wanted to attack God. Satan wanted to destroy God and Satan made his way through man’s choice. However, despite man’s disobedience, it was not upon their shoulders that the payment will be made. It was God who presented Himself to die for man. It was God, Himself, who volunteered to restore man’s disobedience and make man obedient again.

God promised man that He will do all the work to restore them when He gave them their covering from the sheep’s skin. The lamb that was slain will be the promise of the coming redeemer that will save man from death and eternal separation from God. What sin did to the entire universe not just to the earth was severe and devastating that only God, Himself, can wipe and clean.

God clothed them; God covered their shame; God covered their guilt; and God gave them back their dignity.

Genesis 3:21”The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.”

Instead of condemnation God gave them their Redeemer. This brings me to the grandest hope that I can live by daily. I am a sinner and I am falling each step of the way, but I am assured that my God will not condemn me, instead, He offers me, my Redeemer. He gives me Jesus to put my faith and trust for that restoration of joy and peace within me. That life that even disturbed and oppressed by sin but will never be enslaved by sin. Instead of condemnation, God is offering freedom.

This is the gospel of Genesis 3, God did not condemn man. Instead, GOD GAVE MAN HIS REDEEMER TO COVER THEM AND TAKE AWAY THEIR SHAME.