Daily Devotion

 With Pastor Ancel Presnell

“THE NAKEDNESS OF SIN”

From the time that sin entered the world through the fall of man, there has been various attempts on man’s part to cover up his sin nature. Some of these attempts are through denial; you know, denial that God exists, and if man elects to believe that He does not exist, that destroys any premise for being concerned about sin. If there is no God, then there really is no sin, and if there is, does it really matter?

Other ways that man has attempted to deal with sin is making God into He his won image. By doing this, we can fabricate what things God allows or permits. This is convenient for man, but unfortunately, this is not reality. God is God and beside Him there is no other (Isaiah 45:5.)

The other attempt is cover up personal sin by various means. This is precisely what Adam and Eve did once they ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil; God came to them, and they hid themselves in the trees and bushes of the garden because they experienced guilt and their nakedness now made them feel exposed.

It did not work; God knew exactly where they were and what they had done. God still knows where we are and everything that we have done. We can hide, mask it, camouflage it any way that we wish, and God still knows. The only thing that will cover our sin is the blood of Jesus. We must come to Christ by grace through faith and trust in His redemptive work on the cross and His conquering of the grave. Our nakedness is then clothed by His righteousness, and we become the accepted children of God! I trust you have placed your faith in Christ! If not, would you do so today!

Philippians 3:9—” and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own from the law, but one that is through faith in Christ—the righteousness from God based on faith.”