Dress Code

June 29

“You were all baptized unto Christ, so you were all clothed with Christ. This means that you are all children of God through faith in Jesus Christ,” Galatians 3:26, 27.

What shall I wear? A commonly asked question. If we can’t find something we like hanging in our closet, we may travel across town to our favorite apparel shop in an effort to find something suitable—especially if we want to look nice for a specific occasion.

And we’ve all read about prominent people and the extravagance of their wardrobes. Sometimes it seems like these folks who live in the stratosphere and breathe rarefied air have forgotten that even they can wear only one pair of pants at a time, even they put one shoe on at a time.

But the reality is that if we are not “clothed with Christ,” we are “wretched and poor and blind and naked,” Revelation 3:17. The Word here refers to such folk as “pitiful.” In I Peter 5:5, the impulsive Apostle further admonishes that we be, “clothed with humility for God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble.”

When we factor in the great promise that we who are clothed with Christ and have faith in His name are given--the privilege of being children of God--we are compelled to lay hold on this precious treasure and to claim our place in the family of the Highest. There is only one dress code when we appear at His table—that we be robed in the righteousness of our Savior, Isaiah 61:10.