STRIPER
Genesis 3

Sin and sinning will cause everyone that engages in it to be naked. Sin is a striper, and it has no exemption of whom to approach. Sin is disobeying the word of God, and means living according to the way that seems right to man. Sin is of the wicked one, it does not give life, and it only takes away life. Sin has its root in temptation; it will entice to entrap any of its victims. Genesis 2:15-17, “Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. 16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” God’s placement and provision for His children is a covering that surpasses man’s personal ability. When God put man in the Garden of Eden, there were no needs, and it was a place of abundance. God’s placement and provision upon Adam and Eve was a covering where nakedness had no place. God gave them the land to tend and keep, but not to trample on and violate. It was a blessing. Has the Lord placed any covering of blessings upon you lately? Adam and Eve failed to tend the land, and did not to keep what the Lord put in their care because they choose the way that seemed right to them. Both Adam and Eve ate from the tree they were not supposed to eat from, as commanded by God. Adam and Eve violated God’s command. “And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. 9 Then the LORD God called to Adam and said to him, “Where are you?” 10 So he said, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.”11 And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?”” Adam and Eve’s disobedience, to eat from the tree against the word of God, did nothing, but remove the covering of God upon the life of Adam and Eve. Nakedness became their portion because they had withdrawn from obeying God. Nakedness is being on your own. Any man without the covering of God is on his own. Adam and Eve were sent out of the garden and they were marked with death.
Prayer for today: Father, I ask that you search me and lead me to the way of life. O Lord, let me not become a vessel of failure in your calling for my life.