The LORD God as Clothier: He Clothed Adam and Eve after "The Fall": He Clothes All Who Call on HIM with the RIGHEOSNESS OF CHRIST! Are You Naked Too? A Point to Ponder . . .

Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden after they had sinned and made aprons of leaves to cover their shame. But, But God covers them with skins of a sacrificed animal after he makes clothes for them.

A Devotional for Wednesday June 24, 2026

From the pen of English Baptist Pastor John Bunyan

Author of The Pilgrim's Progress

The LORD God as Clothier

“And the LORD God made for Adam and his wife garments of skins and clothed them” Genesis 3: 21.

[Consider an Old Testament example of justification by imputed righteousness]. In the beginning of this chapter, you find these two persons reasoning with the serpent, the effect of which discourse was [that] they take of the forbidden fruit and so break the command of God (vv. 7-15). This done, they hide themselves and cover their nakedness with aprons. But God finds out their sin, from the highest branch even to the roots thereof. What followed? Not one precept by which they should by works obtain the favor of God. But the promise of a Savior; of which promise this twenty-first verse is a mystical interpretation: “The Lord God made them coats of skins and clothed them.”

Observe—

1. That these coats were made, not before, but after they had made themselves aprons; a plain proof their aprons were not sufficient to hide their shame from the sight of God.

2. These coats were made not of Adam’s inherent righteousness. For that was lost before by sin, but of the skins of the slain. [This was a] type of the death of Christ and of the righteousness brought in thereby— “By whose stripes we are healed” (Isaiah 53).

3. This is further manifest for the coats, [for] God made them. And for the persons God clothed them therewith: To show that as the righteousness by which we must stand just before God from the curse is a righteousness of Christ’s performing, not of theirs. So, he, not they, must put it on them also—for of God we are in Christ and of God his righteousness is made ours (1 Corinthians 1: 30).