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Why Naked & Unashamed?
It was at the end of a “Just the Girls” weekend event; I was in the middle of explaining that
everything we’d lost in the Garden of Eden had been restored spiritually in the death and
resurrection of Jesus Christ. Suddenly, to my own surprise I recognized as the first couple
discovered their nakedness and shame, we, in Christ have the incredible freedom and gift to
stand “Naked & Unashamed” before God. What a stunning revelation to even begin to grasp
that we are pursued by the Creator of the Universe… Who knows everything about us…and
loves us fiercely.
There are people everywhere; who feel there stands something in their life that is just
unforgivable. “I know God could never let this one go” one woman said to me, with a chuckle,
as if she were joking. She wasn’t joking, though – and I know that feeling! Whenever things in
my own past came up, not only did I believe He “couldn’t let it go” but – when asked anything
about faith – my answer was the same – “I’m probably going to hell.”
How can we not have those thoughts when God has been presented as an angry,
disappointed, and difficult to please judge, who with a raging vengeance, arrogantly metes out
punishment and gets some sort of twisted pleasure from our pain?
It’s not true! Actually, it couldn’t be farther from the truth! You need to know that it’s safe to come
out of hiding! You have One Who has gone to radical lengths and unfathomable measures for
you to even begin to comprehend an un-comprehendible love that is nothing, nothing,
nothing… like the love you have humanly experienced. The Good News is greater than
anything you could imagine. Maybe you’ve heard it too many times; but listen! This time with
your heart; “For God SO LOVED THE WORLD that He gave His Only SON that whoever
believes will have LIFE – Life eternal. That’s not simply “accept Jesus and you’ll go to heaven”
which is true, but there is so much more. Come to Me, says Jesus, you who are weary,
burdened, bogged down, and overwhelmed with life, facing a mountain of debt, …I’ll give you
rest. Did you hear that? Rest! Peace in our head! Not a list of principles and rules…not even
some moral code, Christian rights or family values! Life on this earth is hard, but through
Jesus Christ, something extraordinary has happened! He didn’t come to simply encourage us
to “play nice” He came so that we might have and enjoy life! Without shame! Without guilt!
(John 10:10) Right here, right now, you are loved! You are forgiven! You are included! You
stand accepted! Not because of what you did or didn’t do…but, because of what He DID! *For
God did not send the Son into the world in order to judge the world, but that the world might find
salvation and be made safe and sound through Him.
*(John 3:17, amplified version)
It was at the end of a “Just the Girls” weekend event; I was in the middle of explaining that
everything we’d lost in the Garden of Eden had been restored spiritually in the death and
resurrection of Jesus Christ. Suddenly, to my own surprise I recognized as the first couple
discovered their nakedness and shame, we, in Christ have the incredible freedom and gift to
stand “Naked & Unashamed” before God. What a stunning revelation to even begin to grasp
that we are pursued by the Creator of the Universe… Who knows everything about us…and
loves us fiercely.
There are people everywhere; who feel there stands something in their life that is just
unforgivable. “I know God could never let this one go” one woman said to me, with a chuckle,
as if she were joking. She wasn’t joking, though – and I know that feeling! Whenever things in
my own past came up, not only did I believe He “couldn’t let it go” but – when asked anything
about faith – my answer was the same – “I’m probably going to hell.”
How can we not have those thoughts when God has been presented as an angry,
disappointed, and difficult to please judge, who with a raging vengeance, arrogantly metes out
punishment and gets some sort of twisted pleasure from our pain?
It’s not true! Actually, it couldn’t be farther from the truth! You need to know that it’s safe to come
out of hiding! You have One Who has gone to radical lengths and unfathomable measures for
you to even begin to comprehend an un-comprehendible love that is nothing, nothing,
nothing… like the love you have humanly experienced. The Good News is greater than
anything you could imagine. Maybe you’ve heard it too many times; but listen! This time with
your heart; “For God SO LOVED THE WORLD that He gave His Only SON that whoever
believes will have LIFE – Life eternal. That’s not simply “accept Jesus and you’ll go to heaven”
which is true, but there is so much more. Come to Me, says Jesus, you who are weary,
burdened, bogged down, and overwhelmed with life, facing a mountain of debt, …I’ll give you
rest. Did you hear that? Rest! Peace in our head! Not a list of principles and rules…not even
some moral code, Christian rights or family values! Life on this earth is hard, but through
Jesus Christ, something extraordinary has happened! He didn’t come to simply encourage us
to “play nice” He came so that we might have and enjoy life! Without shame! Without guilt!
(John 10:10) Right here, right now, you are loved! You are forgiven! You are included! You
stand accepted! Not because of what you did or didn’t do…but, because of what He DID! *For
God did not send the Son into the world in order to judge the world, but that the world might find
salvation and be made safe and sound through Him.
*(John 3:17, amplified version)
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