Apologetics

You Have A Nakedness To Cover

by Olawale Ogunsola
03/12/23
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Everywhere you find yourself, there is always someone nearby whose nakedness deserves your attention and intervention.
Nakedness. It is what you understand that you can act on. Otherwise, you will not act where necessary. Then what is NAKEDNESS. It is a condition of helplessness. A position with no coverings. It is a situation where everyone is ready to make a person a laughing stock. It is a time of reproach.
It comes in different forms. It can be physical, spiritual, emotional or financial. Whichever it, it goes with oppression, distress and suffering.
You can be aware of a nakedness in three ways, namely,

i. By seeing it yourself in any form. That is a nakedness you are a witness of. You see it and no one needs to tell or inform or explain it to you. This needs your attention and intervention speedily.

ii. By hearing it. This could be by direct comversation with you. It can even come by overhearing it when two or more persons are discussing.

iii. By knowing it. This can take place in various forms. For instance, you may discern that a student's pocket money is exhausted. You can be convinced of this beyond measure. Whatever means by which you may know it, a nakedness deserves your attention in every sense of the word.

This becomes necessary if you are a child of your Father Who is in Heaven. This is His custom. He intervenes. So must you do. This was the case when His people were helplessly serving in Egypt. At the point of intervention to set them free, He discloses,
"[7]Then the lord told him, “I have certainly seen the oppression of my people in Egypt. I have heard their cries of distress because of their harsh slave drivers. Yes, I am aware of their suffering.
[8]So I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and lead them out of Egypt into their own fertile and spacious land. It is a land flowing with milk and honey—the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live." Exodus 3. New Living Translation, NLT.

A careful examination of those words discloses that, He came down to rescue (cover their nakedness) His people from what He saw, heard (their cry) and know. Go and do likewise and the Lord will reward you bountifully in Jesus mighty name!

Warning!
If you see, heard or know of anyone' nakedness which is his state of helplessness and are not ready to help him, or have no means of helping him, do not join the multitudes who will be ready to reproach or mock him. It amounts to adding insult to injury. This may have either or both of these effects on you:
I. Should the fellow hear of your evil activities about him, he can place a curse (s) on you which will be on you and your children after you for generations.
ii. You do not know tomorrow. Same or similar fate may befall you in the future. What you sow now will be what you will reap in multiples. Therefore, if you mock a naked man today, people will mock your own nakedness tomorrow. May the Lord help you to act right in Jesus name.
Stay blessed and prepared for the imminent coming of the Lord.