Salvation Clothes

I will greatly rejoice in the LORD,
My soul shall be joyful in my God;
For He has clothed me with the garments of salvation,
He has covered me with the robe of righteousness,
As a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments,
And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.  Isaiah 61:10

As this is a winter morning, given away by that little horizontal line in front of the temperature outside, I put on warm clothing when I got up. Well, actually the clothing was the same temp as the room, it was not warm of itself and generated no heat. The thicker clothing allows less body heat to escape and so I feel warm faster than in summer weight clothing. Sometimes people do a similar thing in church with their church clothing. Dressing up and acting right for a couple of hours on Sunday morning does not however make anyone righteous or saved. 

The clothing of the saints is given by God; the verse for today tells us that the garments of salvation and the robe of righteousness are actions of God and gifts from Him. We cannot purchase these clothes off a rack in a store, and thus they work so much better than what we are accustomed to wearing. However, there is a similarity. For the clothing from God is decoration, like jewels on the bride. She is the bride, jewels or no, and so are the saints already saved and made righteous by God's Holy Spirit from within them. This clothing is going to show off God's work in us when this great day comes and the Bridegroom is wedding His bride. 

The Lord Jesus is so wonderful, and we will be so beautiful in that day in our salvation clothes! 

Bucky