ConneXus Blog

By Julia Fowler, Worship Arts Pastor

"The truth is, many of us go around thinking we are right about everything.  When God was in the Garden, I'll bet Adam and Eve didn't know what it felt like to want to be right.  I'll bet they felt right all the time, and I'll bet it had nothing to do with what they knew and everything to do with who they knew, as though whatever it was inside them that said they didn't think right or feel right or believe right was activated only after God left." - Donald Miller, 'Searching For God Knows What'

It's really a very intriguing thought…of not only not knowing right from wrong, but not even understanding the concept of right or wrong.  In that perfect Eden, there was no internal need to fight for righteousness, because they were already righteous; Adam and Eve were free from guilt or sin.  It was only after they listened to the voice of the deceiver that their eyes were opened and scripture tells us that "they realized they were naked"…they became aware of themselves devoid of God and their sin was exposed.

Becoming aware of our nakedness before God is the first step, I believe, to a life fully devoted to Him.  When our spiritual eyes finally open and we recognize that we have no right-ness of our own, we then can pick up the full and righteous armor of the Lord and stand firm. Clothed in his truth we become righteous vessel to be used at his disposal.  This type of an individual can do enormous, mountain moving things because of the power of Christ at work in and through them.