I would like to talk to you today about
heavenly garments. A small girl, about
four years old, walked along the edge
of the cemetery with her father. She
pointed to the graves and asked,
“What are they, Daddy?” “Oh, they
belong to the people who have gone
on to heaven,” he replied. She stared
at the stones marking the different
mountains of earth and thoughtfully
added, “And is this where they leave
their clothes?” She was right. This is
where they shed the robe of flesh.
Christ promised a new body when he said,
“The corruptible will put on incorruptible,
and the mortal shall put on immortality.”
But the heavenly fitting room begins here
in this life. We are being measured right
now. Do you remember the wedding feast
in the Bible where the servant was sent
into the streets to gather up guests for
the banquet?
One man arrived without the acceptable
wedding garment.
Before Christ can clothe the believer, we
must first put off our old garments of self-
righteousness. Jesus said, our righteousness
is as filthy rags. Isaiah speaks of a new
garment of salvation and a robe of
righteousness. Jesus has prepared a
heavenly wardrobe for those who desire to
be clothed in his righteousness.
Father, as you have clothed the Lilies of
the Valley with great beauty, clothe those
also who hunger for your righteousness
today.
Amen.
No one has greater love than this: to lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants anymore, because a servant doesn’t know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from my Father. John 15:13-15 CSB
