Genesis Chapter Three
And the eyes of both of them were opened. And they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made girdles for themselves. And they heard the voice of Jehovah God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Jehovah God in the middle of the trees of the garden.
(Gen 3:7-8)
Cover-up
We all know what it’s like to cover up sin… the hurried rush to hide the evidence, the peering over your shoulder to see if anyone is looking, the frantic attempt to remember who knows what… It is a terrible way to live.
Here in Genesis chapter 3, Adam and Eve experience it for the first time. They knew nothing of sinbefore this point, and now that they have experienced it, they don’t know what to do with it. Instead of coming clean, they did what sin often drives us to do… they covered it up. They hid it. They compounded their sin by adding more sin to it.
There are two stages to their cover-up plan, and they teach us two lessons.
1. They used Fig Leaves
And the eyes of both of them were opened. And they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made girdles for themselves. And they heard the voice of Jehovah God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Jehovah God in the middle of the trees of the garden.
(Gen 3:7-8)
Cover-up
We all know what it’s like to cover up sin… the hurried rush to hide the evidence, the peering over your shoulder to see if anyone is looking, the frantic attempt to remember who knows what… It is a terrible way to live.
Here in Genesis chapter 3, Adam and Eve experience it for the first time. They knew nothing of sinbefore this point, and now that they have experienced it, they don’t know what to do with it. Instead of coming clean, they did what sin often drives us to do… they covered it up. They hid it. They compounded their sin by adding more sin to it.
There are two stages to their cover-up plan, and they teach us two lessons.
1. They used Fig Leaves
Of all the things they could have grabbed, they grabbed FIG LEAVES! If any of you have ever handled fig leaves, you know one thing: They make you Itch!! And so it is with us. We try and cover-up our sin, and all it really does is make matters worse. It leads us into more and more discomfort! Next time you try and cover your sin, picture Adam and Eve in their Fig Leaf Duds… not a good idea!
2. They Hid themselves from the God who sees all
How foolish can you get… hiding from a God who is everywhere at once! You would NEVER do anything like that would you? WOULD YOU??? We do it all the time! Think about it… you can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can’t fool God ANYTIME!
God has made a way for us to deal with sin… Let’s not cover it up, or try and hide it away. Let’s take the advice of God’s Word…
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
(1Jo 1:9)
2. They Hid themselves from the God who sees all
How foolish can you get… hiding from a God who is everywhere at once! You would NEVER do anything like that would you? WOULD YOU??? We do it all the time! Think about it… you can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can’t fool God ANYTIME!
God has made a way for us to deal with sin… Let’s not cover it up, or try and hide it away. Let’s take the advice of God’s Word…
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
(1Jo 1:9)
