Spiritual Nakedness

​After Adam and Eve sin in the garden, they experience guilt and shame, realizing that they were naked. They tried to cover their physical nakedness by sewing fig leaves together. Adam and Eve attempted to cover their physical nakedness on their own and it was woefully inadequate. This is an incredible picture today of man’s attempt to cover their own spiritual nakedness on their own. In the same way that Adam and Eve’s attempt to cover their own physical nakedness was insufficient, any attempt you and I make to cover our spiritual nakedness is just as insufficient. God kills an animal to make Adam and Eve clothing. That's also what God did for you and I spiritually. His Son became the blood sacrifice when He dies on the cross to pay the penalty for our sins. God made Jesus who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. When I put my faith totally in what Jesus already did for me, God covered my spiritual nakedness with the righteousness of Christ. So when God looks at me, He now sees me through the righteousness of His Son. That's why God could declare me righteous. Not because I did anything, but because the righteousness of Jesus was put on my account.