“They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.” Psalm 22:18
The LORD was stripped of His clothes, as was the custom of the Roman crucification. There He was hanging helplessly naked before the world to see.
This still another picture of the humiliation JESUS took upon Himself! It was our humiliation, all ours!
The Word of GOD has much to say about nakedness within its pages, mostly of the disgrace of it. After the fall in the garden Adam and Eve stood naked exposing themselves before GOD. Once the beauty of their creation was polluted it now became shame and needed to be covered! Hence the need of sacrifice! JESUS was the naked sacrifice before the world. The blood sacrifice that covers sin!
Isn’t it strange how the world misguides and changes the Word of GOD? We are told nakedness is beautiful to behold, it is art. While GODs word calls it shame, man says it isn’t, we should be proud of what we are. Something to think about, when naked in the garden, God clothed them and ever sense the world has tried to remove clothes to expose their nakedness! Cloth yourselves with CHRIST!
JESUS was there in all my shame
Naked for all to see!
It was my sin that put Him there,
Hanging from that dreadful tree!
Oh LORD forgive all my sin
And keep me close to Thee.
Thank You for my shame you took
Upon the wretched tree!
“Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:” Revelation 3:17
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