NAKED!

There is a conflict that exist between our intellect and the personality of faith. The effort of man to understand God with the head has always landed in serious misinterpretations of spiritual complexities. The things of the spirit cannot be understood perfectly by intellectual elucidation. Intellect is a product of the mind and the head making a conclusion from obvious fact set before it. However, faith is a product of the spirit operational upon the living word available to it. I want to share with you on how we got to the place of feeling inadequate before God and what is needed to live a confident life as a Christian.

God created the heaven and the earth. He placed man on the earth to oversee its activities. The Garden of Eden was symbolic to the life of the man. The Garden is an earthly-heaven but still with a content that is inadequate which is not to be explored- The tree at the Centre of the garden. The man is not an angel, he was made only in the image nation (imagination) of God but had some limitations. His making was from an earthly substance, the dust, which defines his inadequacy. So, God designed the man to see from that image of Himself which he breathed inside of man. If man is exactly God, man would have been able to travel through heavenly and earthly realms. The earthly container (body) wasn’t perfect. The design was for man to only see, think and act from the content (Spirit).

When the subtle man came into the picture, he only needed to change the equation. Lucifer knew what happened to him in the heavenlies that cost him his highly exalted position. He lost it through his image nation which wasn’t in conformity to that of God. He was beginning to imagine himself as being the Lord. So, he played the man who now enjoys the dominion he used to enjoy to deceit. He was able to talk the woman to doing what God had told them not to do.

The scriptures records that immediately they ate the fruit they have been told by God not to eat, they knew they were naked; not that they became naked from eating it. And God asked them: “who told you that you were naked?” This means they have always been naked but never imagined it. They gave power to their container by believing the words of the serpent as against God’s command. So, there was the battle between the container (flesh) and the content (spirit). The container that they had never seen from began to look for every means to gain expression. Intellect became replaced with their faith. They traded their faith to a nation where there was much concern for who am I. they began to sow fig leaves to cover the nakedness that had always been there but covered by the image of God. The real issue here is that their image nation changed.

God knew they have always been naked. All that He needed from them was just a continued sight from His breadth inside of them and having nothing to do with the container that only existed so they could operate on the earth for their primary assignment.

Now, Jesus came to restore the order. God knew fully well there is nothing man could do to stop seeing his nakedness (inadequacies). As long as man keeps seeing the nakedness (inadequacies) there can’t be a smooth fellowship between him and God. By extension, the devil already won because his plan was to make man see his nakedness.

Jesus gave Himself as an image to be seen at the expense of man’s nakedness (inadequacies). This was the symbolic event that took place at the exchange of Barabbas, the hardened criminal, for Jesus.

Yes, you feel naked (have inadequacies) but seeing through Jesus the content renders your inadequacies less powerful over you. That’s the new order. Jesus declares you not guilty but you must change your image nation back to the way He intended it to be in the Garden of Eden. Begin to see yourself as righteousness of God that He calls you. Walk everyday confidently naming all that is around you exactly the way you want them to be called. It’s not because you are not naked (Inadequate) but because Jesus’ image is now what God’s see in you. Why would you then concentrate on your nakedness (inadequacies)?

Friend, this is the mystery of the word. Stop understanding Jesus through your intellect. Concentrate henceforth on Jesus’ covering of you and you’d see yourself live a peaceful and balanced life.

Be Innovated

Olufemi Ibitoye

@toyeolufemi