The Clothing We Wear Matters
By Joe Keim
July 1, 2025
Adam and Eve had just eaten from the tree. Their eyes were now open, and they saw things they had never seen before. Immediately, they were ashamed and embarrassed.
“...they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons.” (Gen 3:7).
Fig leaves...
= a manmade sys-tem
= temporary
= depression, guilt, doubt
= false humility
Made themselves aprons...
= self-righteousness
= boasting about self
= flawed
= justifying self be-fore God
After a while, God came to the garden in the cool of the day. The text doesn't say, but my guess is that God looked Adam and Eve squarely in the eye and said, "So, you think those dirty, rotten, smelly aprons will make you righteous before Me?"
God did go on to say:
"Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins and clothed them" (Gen 3:21).
God's coat of skin...
= required a sacrifice
= required bloodshed
= was perfect, holy, and without blemish
God clothed them...
= the work of God
= eliminated all boasting on man’s part
= justified man before God
= God's righteousness
Today, as crazy as it seems, people still make their own aprons. They justify themselves before God, they boast, compare themselves with others, ban and shun each other, feel miserable, are zealous, angry, rigid, and harsh.
“For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to es-tablish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God” (Rom 10:3-4).
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