Naked & Unashamed (Part two)

Hello God’s child. Another revelation opened up to me concerning nakedness. If you haven’t read the first submission, find it here, so that you can be able to easily understand this second part.

As we saw that nakedness represents intimacy in the former, nakedness represents a state of privacy as well. By privacy, I mean; one’s nakedness is not meant to be seen by everyone! It is an emblem of dignity or virginity and if broken, there’s some sort of indirect defilement.

As we saw that it was okay for a child to run around naked and be not ashamed, it is not okay for an adult to do the same. If an adult does so, there’s loss of respect toward them. A child running around naked represents immaturity… It is in that regard that I’d conclude that if a man or woman run around showing off how much they pray to God, then it’s a sign of immaturity.

While the former article acknowledged us talking of God and our relationship with Him freely, it didn’t endorse the act of going about praying openly and showing off how much we can pray ‘even more than others’. Jesus calls that hypocrisy and compares it to Pharisees.

The mature (Spiritually) on the other hand are those who keep their secret place business PRIVATE, just like a mature person ought to keep their nakedness private.

In the entertainment industry, this sacredness has been violated as the Jezebel spirit is on the loose! Big women—mothers to children— are blatantly exposing their breasts, and other organs meant to be preserved for only the sight of their husbands. I remember the woman in Song of Solomon. She never went about opening up to every Tom, Dick and Harry. Her nudity was kept for the man. The man to whom she was betrothed!

Of course some say ‘it’s just business’, but I am reminded of God’s character as a jealous God. The purity that comes with your body is sacred to Him. Imagine showing your nakedness—winning God’s trust—and then going on to open up to another man, or another god. That would provoke jealousy out of any man I’m sure. And so it’ll provoke the same out of God

In the New Testament, it is written that our bodies are the Temple of His Spirit.(1 Cor 3:16, 6:19) When women dress in a manner arousing sexual feelings towards the opposite sex, chances are that they are inviting another man home yet their husband is in the house symbolically.

Showing parts meant to be private immediately throws us in the Gomer category. Gomer was a prostitute—the prostitute that prophet Hosea was asked to buy off and make wife by God—who kept on prostituting even after marriage!

And to the dear men, don’t think this only goes for the women. There’s a stun warning for those who go about, stumbling God’s daughters as well: Proverbs 6:26 (NLT) For a prostitute will bring you to poverty, but sleeping with another man’s wife will cost you your life.

Even if some women aren’t married yet physically, we have to stand warned of the fact that each of these ladies are God’s, and He owns right of husbandship.

We have to be Noah’s sons who understood the magnitude of nakedness as a private affair. When Ham laughed at how drunk their father had got, the elder sons reacted differently…

‘So Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it upon the shoulders of both, and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they did not see their father’s nakedness. When Noah awoke from his wine, and knew the thing which his youngest son had done to him, He exclaimed, Cursed be Canaan! He shall be the servant of servants to his brethren! He also said, Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem! And blessed by the Lord my God be Shem! And let Canaan be his servant. May God enlarge Japheth; and let him dwell in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant.’ Genesis 9:23-27

Ham caused an entire generation to be cursed. You’ve read at how much Canaanites were loathed as a result of that curse. They were even displaced from their own land much later in the Bible. All because their father violated the hallowedness that comes with nakedness as a private issue.

As I bring the matter to a close, I have one more incident about nakedness as a private matter: Bathsheba! Bathsheba is bathing in a bathroom somewhere at her house. This represents a christian having a secret place time. It represents Daniel praying thrice a day! As Bathsheba didn’t intend it to be a public matter, David the King, is AWOL from the battlefront, taking a trip of his Kingdom whilst above the palace roof.

As fate has it, his eyes stumble over an open-roof bathroom. He asks for a pair of binoculars to zoom in. He falls for the charm. He loves what He sees. This is an allegory of Proverbs 31:30 that says ‘Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.’

Though David killed Bathsheba’s husband after having laid with her moments after that incident to cover up her pregnancy, there’s an inconspicuous detail.

Jesus said in Matthew 6:6; “But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who [is] in the secret [place;] and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.”

I notice two things here; my responsibility, and God’s responsibility. I am of the assumption that Bathsheba had indeed shut her door! That’s the responsibility we too have to consider. God’s responsibility is to reward us OPENLY, for having kept our nakedness discrete towards Him; for having upheld our privacy as a consecrated entity to Him.

Even if Bathsheba was not in actual sense ‘praying’, God wants you to know, that as you get naked and vulnerable and commune with Him in private, He’ll reward you Himself with a reward too big to be private! Like the king summoned Bathsheba, kings will summon you too! Like Daniel prayed privately and consistently, kings sought him out in all their different reigns!

Choose to be naked & unashamed in private with God! An open reward which no eye has seen nor ear’s heard awaits you! He that is watchful will recompense your faithfulness for all eons to come & for all generations to see!

And for you that has exposed your nakedness publicly, there’s grace and mercy. God said your sins He would not remember, that though your sins are as scarlet, He’d make them as white as wool. Come on now back Gomer, let your righteous husband love on you, and cherish you. And decide today, to keep yourself pure for Him.

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Ezekiel 16:7-14 “I made you thrive like a plant in the field; and you grew, matured, and became very beautiful. [Your] breasts were formed, your hair grew, but you [were] naked and bare. “When I passed by you again and looked upon you, indeed your time [was] the time of love; so I spread My wing over you and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore an oath to you and entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine,” says the Lord GOD.

“Then I washed you in water; yes, I thoroughly washed off your blood, and I anointed you with oil. I clothed you in embroidered cloth and gave you sandals of badger skin; I clothed you with fine linen and covered you with silk. I adorned you with ornaments, put bracelets on your wrists, and a chain on your neck. And I put a jewel in your nose, earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head. Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing [was of] fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth.

You ate [pastry of] fine flour, honey, and oil. You were exceedingly beautiful, and succeeded to royalty. Your fame went out among the nations because of your beauty, for it [was] perfect through My splendor which I had bestowed on you,” says the Lord GOD.