Honor and Shame — a robe of light descending to cover a bowed figure

God covers what we cannotGenesis 3:14-24Length: Standard

Eat

Read the passage slowly, read it again, then retell it in your own words. If you can't retell it, read it once more.

  • Read
  • Reread
  • Retell

Digest

Answer from what the passage actually says — stay in the text.

  1. What does this passage show me about God?

    • The fig leaves were their idea; whose idea are the garments of skin, and who does the clothing?
  2. What does it show me about people — and about myself?

    • What have you been using as fig leaves — achievements, appearances, silence — to cover your shame?
  3. What will I obey this week? (a concrete step, with a day)

    • What self-made covering will you set down this week to let God cover you instead?
  4. Who will I tell?

    • Who is exhausted from covering themselves, to whom you could tell this story of the God who clothes?

Grow

Growth is God's part, not yours. Do the cycle faithfully and trust Him to give the growth (1 Corinthians 3:6–7).

Pray

God, my own coverings are as thin as fig leaves. Thank you that you yourself made garments and clothed the very people who had dishonored you — clothe me like that.