Prayer: Father, may I seek You every day with all my heart. Amen.
Reading: Isaiah 20 key: vs. 2-5 “at that time Adonai spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz saying, “Go, remove the sackcloth from your loins and your sandals from your feet.” So he did so, walking naked and barefoot. Then Adonai said: “Just as My servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot for three years, as a sign and a wonder against Egypt and Ethiopia, so will the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, with their buttocks uncovered, to Egypt’s shame.” TLV
Attention: In the late 60’s and early 70’s Broadway produced a couple of musicals which introduced nudity to the stage. It was considered an age of enlightenment and freedom of expression. Unlike Adam and Eve, we were no longer embarrassed by nudity. No longer did we blush or rush to hide nakedness in public.
Are you aware that Genesis records when Adam and Eve’s eyes were opened, “they knew that they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made for themselves loin-coverings.” Even though they were the only two people on earth, they covered themselves. Later, “Adonai Elohim made Adam and his wife tunics of skin and He clothed them (Genesis 3:7b & 21).”
The God-given response to our nakedness is shame. We naturally cover ourselves.
Adonai commanded Isaiah to walk around naked as a “sign and a wonder against Egypt and Ethiopia, so will the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, with their buttocks uncovered, to Egypt’s shame.” The king of Assyria publicly humiliated the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia.
When the Nazis led the Jews to the concentration camps, they too stripped their captives to humiliate them.
As a means of protest today for a cause, people will strip and flaunt their nakedness, no longer ashamed by the God-given nature to cover ourselves. Even the prophet Jeremiah declared, “”Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore, they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I punish them, they shall be overthrown,” says Adonai.” Abomination is anything which defies the living God. It is an attitude of rebellion against the Law (Torah) of God.
Are you able to blush over something which God requires us to hide? Our nakedness is for our spouse only. We are in subjection to God when we clothe ourselves modestly. We are, as a nation, vulnerable to falling away from God and securing His judgement when we no longer exhibit an ability to blush at nakedness.
Action: I choose to honor God by keeping myself clothed and not exposing others to my nakedness.
Yield: I choose to submit to God’s standard of living.
Engage: I choose to engage with the help of the Holy Spirit to not seek to look upon someone else’s nakedness.
Relationship: I choose to live in intimate relationship with God (Adonai).
Prayer: Father, You set the standard and even made clothing for Adam and Eve. I choose to live by Your standard and not the standard of rebellion and defiance. Amen.
Memory Verse: Genesis 3:21 “Adonai Elohim made Adam and his wife tunics of skin and He clothed them.” TLV
Music Video: Billy Graham—We have to be clothed in righteousness https://youtube.com/shorts/DtF5wORjNP8?si=C_CRJMAaAQb39UWu
Remember, “Abide in Yeshua, today!”