Encouragement

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For many years now my wife and I have gotten a lot of our clothes from clothing banks of different kinds and places. My wife has always been able to find, [thank the Lord] some very nice things for her and me and even our children and grandchildren. It’s been easy to tell for me though that a great many of the clothes she would bring home for me, which seem to be in a “batch” of the same size, were from someone who had “passed away”. Of course I probably don’t even know who they were but at the time it was a blessing from the Lord and my wife, who even though she has done this kind of shopping for most of our life together, there was a time when she complained about having to do so because of wanting brand new things. I think she has gotten used to this way now. All of us who have been recipients of her clothing hunts have really gotten some nice things, but each time it’s hard for me not to “wonder” a bit about who passed away and left “me “ their clothes. I’ve never been irritated by this or upset in any way like that, but it has always had a way of making me “remember”, as though I were doing a last rites memorial for the person. “Thank You God for these clothes and for the person who owned them and those who left them for you to show my wife when and where to find them”. Maybe it’s just me wanting to honor the living and the dead, to some degree. It’s almost like “organ donation” and the clothing someone wears has just as much significance to those around them as their internal organs do.

Along those lines let me talk briefly about another honored person who’s clothes I wear. The Bible talks about us being allowed to and also required to “put on Christ” and “His Robe of Righteousness”. This was only possible because of His death and departure from this world almost 2000yrs. ago. And not only myself but everyone who would “come after Him” can also “wear” His clothes. His “robes and clothes” are now massed produced brand new in Heaven for all of the whosoever will’s to wear as soon as they are ready willing and able. They are tailored after Jesus size [not ours] and are not in a thrift store. They come right from the hand of God. To “put on Christ” of course means way more than just jumping into a Christian Suit of some kind and walking around “as though” you knew him well. You can’t even get his clothes issued to you unless you “know Him” in His present glorified risen state. We cannot even get into the Kingdom of God without wearing his clothes. Especially the “Robe of His Righteousness”. No unclothed people allowed and no one with their own “filthy rags”. I’m proud to not only know Him personally but to have his Spirit grant me the honor and privilege of “wearing that dead man’s clothes”.

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