Naked or Nekked?

One thing I enjoy about reading the Bible is how the same old things can be revolutionary. I have been looking at the creation narrative in the book of Genesis lately. It is something I kind of take for granted. You know everything that is written there so you tend to avoid reading it but when you do read it, you find that you are being spoken to, being shaped. Don Miller once wrote about the whole “naked and not ashamed” idea and he said that in a perfect system we would be so saturated with awareness of God that we would be completely unaware of ourselves. I was thinking about that when I read the most incredible verse when God says to Adam,


“Who told you that you were naked?”

So, I'm asking the same question. Who told you that you had to be ashamed? Who told you to hide from God? Who is telling you to run away, cover your tracks and put on a mask? I hope it isn't me.

I think that it is important to think of things in these terms. Sometimes we overlook these one liners in scripture. Like God just decided to include some dialogue in the Bible to make it more readable. But this question resounds through scripture. You can almost here Jesus saying this very line to Nicodemus or the Samaritan woman at the well.

So think about who is telling you that you are naked...stop listening to them.

A co-worker from the South once told me that there is a difference between naked and nekked; naked is when you ain't got no clothes on, nekked is when you ain't got no clothes on and you're up to something.