Found Naked

A discussion ensued… “People aren’t hungry any more for God.” Disagreeing, I believe we are hungry until we have Jesus, but may not know it yet.

As Christians we may be accused of answering questions today that society is no longer asking. What is the true, unrealized hunger abiding in the hearts of a society that God loves and is reaching for? God’s Word tells us: “we groan, longing to be clothed…that we shall not be found naked…He that made us for this selfsame thing is God…” (2 Cor 5:2,3,5). The truth is “Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in His sight; but all things are naked and opened before the eyes of Him with Whom we have to do” (Heb 4:13).

Could it be that all of us, perhaps the search for American Dream, are in the quest of being “clothed”? Going to our origins, ever since our original parents Adam and Eve realized their nakedness and hid, humans have been en route to hide their nakedness from the gaze of a Holy God?

Futuristically we know “every man [small and great]…hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains and said to the mountains and rocks, ‘Fall on us, and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne…’” (Rev 6:15-16).

If we take this view, that this is the driving force in the core of us, we will realize all things as mere wrappings to dull that dread. Wrappings such as wealth, busyness, living through our children are only deceiving us. They do not provide cover from the Face.

Let us persevere directly toward the Answer we know provides true cover. The cover that no eye can penetrate and peel away is Jesus Christ and His robe of righteousness.——————–