Purity And Dignity

"I clothed you in embroidered cloth and gave you sandals of badger skin; I clothed you with fine linen and covered you with silk."   [Ezekiel 16:10]

See with what matchless generosity the Lord provides for his people’s apparel. They are so arrayed that the divine skill is seen producing an unrivalled broidered work, in which every attribute takes its part and every divine beauty is revealed. No art like the art displayed in our salvation, no cunning workmanship like that behold in the righteousness of the saints. Justification has engrossed learned pens in all ages of the church, and will be the theme of admiration in eternity. God has indeed “curiously wrought it.” With all this elaboration there is mingled utility and durability, comparable to our being sandals with badgers’ skins. The righteousness which is of God by faith endures forever, and he who is sandals with this divine preparation will tread the desert safely, and may even set his foot upon the lion and the viper. Purity and dignity of our holy vesture are brought out in the fine linen. When the Lord sanctifies his people, they are clothed as priests in pure white; not the snow itself excels them; they are in the eyes of men and angels fair to look upon, and even in the Lord’s eyes they are without spot. Meanwhile the royal apparel is delicate and rich as silk. No expense is spared, no beauty withheld, no daintiness denied. Surely there is gratitude to be felt and joy to be expressed. Come, my heart, refuse not our evening hallelujah! Tune our pipes! Touch our chords! we are clothed by the Great Sacred! in sweetest harmony of praise.  Halellujah, God bless