Ever since Adam’s fall, mankind has been trying to recreate and recapture the departed glory through clothing and this recapturing desire started in the Garden with a fig leaf… Among all the creations that God had created, only human being needs to source for clothing externally. Take a look at all the animals of the land, birds of the sky and fishes of the sea have their own beautiful “clothing” glowing out from inside of them. The original life for all the creations are still intact except man. That is why dogs still bark, cats still meow, cows still moo and man, rebel!
Romans 3:23 ~ for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
From then onwards, we cannot find a single person in this world walking around without clothing and yet not naked. This includes the "Pharisees" and legalistic hardcore Law upholders… So, there is no righteous one in God's eye and there is no way that we can cloth ourselves back to glory.
Take a look at today’s fashion; clothing is not merely for covering our bodies anymore. It projects an illusion to the people of the world that it can satisfy their search of the lost "glory". We have different kinds of brand, with different designs and different price tags which in turn, are illustrating the classification and identification on the level of "glory" that the world is seeking by satisfying their desire for the lost "glory”. The brand itself is projecting the status of “glory” based on its price tag and design.
For example, there is a big difference between a brand with a crocodile that swims outward and a brand with crocodile that swims inward. They vary in quality and price… and the sense of glorious status that the world is seeking is therefore, constituted by brand, its quality and price.
Our Lord Jesus preached the famous Sermon on the Mount that people who do not know God and the way He works fuss over food and clothing, but we know both God and how He works. We are therefore, to steep our life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don't worry about missing out and we will find all our everyday human concerns be met.
Galatians 3:27 ~ for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
We as a born again Christian, a new creation united onto Christ, are seated with Christ at the right hand of the Heavenly Father and have already been clothed with the Righteousness of our Lord Jesus Christ. This righteous white linen is radiant with glory and is clothed on a new creation with no history of sin, curses, sickness, poverty, failure, and all types of shortcoming. This is the life that is clothed with grace and truth and as a Christian with born again spirit; we are to align our thinking with grace and truth so that the radiant glory of Jesus’ righteousness can be manifested through us.
We are now the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus and the righteous is like magnet that attracts wisdom and blessing. He is gracious to cloth us with the Righteousness of Christ band we who know both God and how He works are therefore, to freely exercise our faith by steeping our life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. This is grace...
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