I’m trying to decide which season I enjoy the most. While I enjoy the warm days of summer when I go to the grocery store in the summer, people appear in all manner of undress. Maybe one in fifty is attractive. The rest should be wearing many more garments to cover up tattoos and rolls of flesh indicating they have been to the grocery store too many times. I like winter time because it is all covered up.
Genesis 2:25 says, “Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.” That was because they were perfect and looked really good. If people looked that good today I’m sure the super market would be even more revealing. Genesis 3:7 says, “They sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.” Oh for a produce department that sold fig leaves.
There are a lot of things about people that need to be covered up. Too often people expose way too much about their personal life. I shudder inside when in church and before the morning prayer someone asks for prayer requests. Way too much is often said while asking for prayers. “Pray for my sister’s son who is an axe murderer.” I really didn’t need to know that!
I realize there is a cathartic need to stop harboring pain but that is one of the functions of real prayer – private prayer. I John 1:9 admonishes us to confess our sins, but that is to the great loving silent Father who knows how to keep secrets. Best of all He is available during all seasons of the year.
Written by Roger Bothwell on July 22, 2016
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