Origin Story #18 of 21:

The Lord God made garments of skins for the man and for his wife,

and God clothed them… Then the Lord God

banished them from the Garden of Eden. (Gn 3:21-22)

“Love covers” (1Pt 4:8). God will not leave Adam and Eve as he found them—blaming and mumbling, drifting apart from one another and from their Creator, hiding and trying to cover up. In short, God will not leave them naked and ashamed. God is not interested in exposing their guilt. He does not engage in ridicule. God still comes. He sticks with them as their God. He covers their sin and their shame: “God clothed them.”

It wasn’t as if Adam and Eve hadn’t tried: “They sowed fig leaves together to make coverings for themselves.” It just didn’t work. They need something larger—something more lasting and real. They need the kind of covering only God can provide: “The Lord God made garments of skins for the man and for his wife, and God clothed them.” It’s God’s work and it’s God’s doing. The God who curses is the God who covers: “Though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies” (Lam 3:32). God himself provides the necessary covering for life outside the Garden.

From this side of Calvary, we can’t help seeing something of our Lord’s Sacrifice. Adam and Eve were supposed to die this day, but they live. They don’t die, but somebody died. The curse of death lands on another—an innocent who had nothing to do with this mess. It causes us to think of how “Christ died for our sins” (1Cor 15:3).