"The Wedding Garment"

"I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy." (Psalms 132:16)

  Usually I would have had this done by now, but Disneyland whipped me out; can't wait to get home and back to normal. To the point of yesterday's post, the main point was something that I did not really want to get into, but for the sake of transparency, there are moments that I wonder the reason why, and say, How long Lord? Yes, you guessed it: I pretty much get the same answer that Paul received: "My grace is sufficient for you." Do I have it all under control? Absolutely not! But God has me in His control; as unwilling as I might be sometimes, He is still in control. It's like that long and sometimes diverted plane ride; the destination is still the same, but the flight might have to change direction, depending upon the weather, traffic, and barometric pressure. Since we are on the subject of change; there is a point that Jesus made about changing clothes; a point that we should all try to understand. We find this parable in Matthew 22:1-14, as Jesus is sharing about a huge wedding feast, where the guest were brought in from the highways. Because they were not prepared for such a royal event, each guest was given wedding garments to put on, that suited the occasion. In verse 11, we see the king saw one of the guest did not have on the wedding garment, and he said, "Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment?" Believe it or not, we are both the priests and the saints! Matthew Henry sums this up with: "God gives more than we ask, and when he gives salvation he will give an abundant joy." Peter puts it like this: "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of the darkness into his marvelous light." (1 Peter 2:9) In that, Peter uses the two words that Jesus speaks in Matthew 22:14, saying, "For many are called, but few are chosen." I am pretty sure that it is important to put on that wedding garment...

"Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under the schoolmaster. For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. Their is neither Jew or Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male or female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise." (Galatians 3:24-29)