A Fur Coat

A Fur Coat 

I think of family and friends who live in Florida,

who may have picked a ripe orange off the tree for breakfast this morning.

I look outside and see the ground and trees covered with cold snow. 

I somehow identify with Adam and Eve being under the curse

and needing a warm fur coat.

Picture from my back door - anyone from Florida want to trade places?

 “The wages of sin is death”

Romans 6:23

From the very beginning we can see that sin

(disobedience to God)

brings on a curse of pain and death.

The joy of having a child is now effected by

the increase of pain in child birth.

The joy of working accomplishment is effected by

thistles and thorns.

It seems that the Garden was a place you could live forever in

but because of sin, man returns to dust.

This is a sad commentary until

God makes Adam and Eve fur coats.

 

It took the shedding of blood for Adam and Eve

to be covered and not be overcome by shame.

God made provision but not without cost;

an animal(s) had to die.

This is the first of a multitude of examples

where death and blood were used to cover

the sin, guilt and shame.

A coat can only serve as a covering.

God wants you!

And to have more

than covering for our sins.

God wants to wash away our sin and shame.

So God prepared a death greater than that of animals.

The death of His Son!

The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the World!

Adam and Eve were terrified of God

that is why they hid.

Can you image how they felt

when God put those fur coats on them.

They could feel the warmth of His love.

It is like the love of a parent

who hugs their child after a spanking.

And now you and I can put on Christ Jesus!

The Bible says that,

“If we confess our sins

(to speak about our actions the same way God does)

He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins

and to cleans us from ALL unrighteousness”

1 John 1:9

It is snowing outside, and in the single digits;

He has washed me white as snow

and I am wrapped in His love.

Thank you Lord!

Scripture Reading

Genesis 3:16-22 NIV

16 To the woman he said,

"I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing;

with pain you will give birth to children.

Your desire will be for your husband,

and he will rule over you."

17 To Adam he said,

"Because you listened to your wife

and ate from the tree about which I commanded you,

'You must not eat of it,'

"Cursed is the ground because of you;

through painful toil you will eat of it

all the days of your life.

18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,

and you will eat the plants of the field.

19 By the sweat of your brow

you will eat your food

until you return to the ground,

since from it you were taken;

for dust you are

and to dust you will return."

20 Adam named his wife Eve,

because she would become the mother of all the living.

21 The LORD God made garments of skin

for Adam and his wife and clothed them.