Perhaps you have never had difficulty with this particular verse but (Genesis 3:10) had always puzzled me, where Adam said he was afraid because he was naked.
If he'd said he was afraid because he had eaten the fruit or because he had sinned, I could have understood it but I couldn't understand why he was afraid because he was naked. Hadn't he always been naked? This was particularly in my mind in connection with an adult class I had to teach and I asked the Lord to show me the meaning because I had a deep sense that there was something very significant in that verse.
Early one morning as I knelt by my bed, I asked the Lord to explain the verse to me and He said, "Remember Moses?" Yes, I remember Moses and how his face shone after he had been in the immediate Presence of God. Then the Lord said, "That shining on the face of Moses was just a tiny, pinhole peek at the glory which clothed Adam." Then I got it! Adam didn't wear clothes and he felt the breeze on every part of his body as he walked through Eden
BUT ADAM HAD NEVER BEEN NAKED BEFORE!
Because there was no sin to separate him from God, he was covered with the shining splendour of the radiant light of God's reflected glory. But when he sinned that glory departed. When he sinned, he looked down at himself and saw that the radiance was gone. He was, for the very first time, naked; and he was terrified.
On the Mount of Transfiguration the disciples got a glimpse of the glory which Adam had, which Jesus has and which we will have. But in the time between, God has given us an inner glory and radiance through the indwelling Resurrection Life of the Lord Jesus.
As I wrote to a precious missionary, who felt that they were being stripped of everything, Adam's stripping was because of disobedience and it cost him the glory; her stripping is because of obedience and it will cost her only those things which hinder the glory. I long for that kind of stripping by the Holy Spirit, until there is nothing left in me but the Life of the Son of God. Oh for such a day, when our hearts will be filled with God's glory, our lives will be radiant with His Presence and others will benefit richly from the Light.
In this year I pray that a deepening intimacy with the Lord will touch our lives with radiance and give us shining splendour in our hearts.
With love and prayers,