"The Garmets of Salvation..."

Through the months of Jonathan and I being engaged, the Lord began to sweetly teach me of His love and character as I prepared for our wedding. I have wanted to put it into words but have not had the opportunity until now. One of the sweetest memories was as I began dreaming and searching for ....THE dress. While trying on the most beautiful article of clothing I have ever worn....it came. It was sweet. It was quiet. It was a voice that said what Isaiah 61:10-11 so beautifully explains.... 

            

           " He has clothed me with the garmets of salvation. 

              He has covered me with the robe of righteousness..."

Since a wedding is a picture of our relationship with Jesus Christ, that dress was a symbol of the purity and righteousness of Jesus being PLACED OVER ME. My sin....my fleshliness....my selfishness....COVERED with the righteousness of Jesus. It is not in my own effort that I  can be like Him...it is something that He does, something that He willingly lays over me. There is no more striving...it is finished, Jesus said. His beautiful, perfect righteousness laid over my sinful, fleshly self. This is how He sees me. Because of this, I view the forgiveness of Jesus differently now. Whenever my sin and my fleshliness are overwhelming and debilitating, I view myself in that white dress....that white dress representing the righteousness of Jesus that HE has placed on me. Forgiven....paid in full....covered in the purity of Jesus.....Praise Him!

-N