From Genesis 3: Covered

From the first, there has always been a cost to cover human sin.

When the Man and Woman claimed the out-of-bounds fruit—when they took a bite out of God’s authority and grasped at a godlikeness all their own—their shame separated them from the Holy. How could rebels stand in His presence? Their naked transgression changed everything.

Yet God, in His mercy, chose to cover them. He spent the life of His own creation to ameliorate their shame. Blood was shed for them from the first.

Genesis 3 is, like, the tragedy. But take heart: It also figures, in the shadow of our shame, the shape of the hope to come.

God, in His mercy, would spend the life of His creation to cover our sins once and for all. Whatever creature He gave in the Garden, His Lamb would come with the Gospel.

— Tyler

(Genesis 3:21)