In Revelation 22:3, we read, "No longer will there be any curse." The curse, which came into the world when Adam and Eve broke faith with God in the Garden of Eden. The result of that curse was evidenced when the couple "hid from the Lord God" (Gen 3:3). We have been trying to hide ever since - not just from God, we hide or mask ourselves from everyone.
Knowing we are sinners, aware of our failures and flaws, we mask our true selves for fear of rejection. Because of the curse, we hide the naked truth about ourselves, we doubt that anyone, even God, could truly love us if we revealed every dark thought, every bad choice, every ugly fact of our lives.
What makes the curse so grievous is that the one thing we want the most is the one thing we fear we can never have: Someone to love us just as we truly are, warts and all.
What we do not fully understand, what we have never seen clearly is that "Christ redeemed us from the curse" (Gal 3:3), the Cure has already been provided for mankind. Those who see this truth at all only do so as "a poor reflection" (1 Cor 13:12).
Our goal ought to be to remove as much of the mask and allow others to be as open as is possible until that day when everything about us will be revealed, including how loved we are and how cleansed from every stain we have become in Christ. On that day, there will be no more curse.
Jus' Sayn.
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