Fig leaf
One of the most fortunate
(for us)
attributes of God the
Omniscient
is He’s never
disappointed.
We can’t let God down.
He didn’t build a garden that
through
human error went hopelessly
awry.
Shame before God is a dishonesty,
a lack of humility, hiding behind
a fig leaf,
seeing ourselves as more
culpable
than we could ever possibly be.
Humility is a way back to the
garden,
recognizing God’s sovereignty,
offering God our worst and best.
Humility is the opposite of
shame –
it unravels our pretensions –
presenting ourselves to God (and
to everyone)
nakedly honest, precisely who
we are
not who we wish we were nor
hope to become.
O child of God, how haughty
you are
to speak so freely of God or
humility.
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