Found this quote while doing QT. seemed to be simple yet thought provoking.




"But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear." - Isaiah 59:2


Seat's at God's table are not available to the sloppy. But who among us is anything otherwise? Unkempt morality. Untidy with truth. Careless with people. Our moral clothing is in disarray.


Throughout scripture, little has been said about the clothes Jesus wore. We know what his cousin John the Baptist wore. We know what the religious leaders wore. But the clothing of Christ is nondescript: neither so humble as to touch hearts nor so glamorous as to turn heads.


One reference to Jesus' garments is noteworthy, "When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they divided his clothes among the four of them. They also took his robe, but it was seamless, woven in one piece from the top. So they said, "Let's not tear it but throw dice to see who gets it." - John 19:23 NLT


It would have well been Jesus' finest possession. Jewish tradition called for a mother to make such a robe and present it to her son as a departure gift when he left home. Had Mother Mary done this for Jesus? We do not know. But we do know that the tunic was without seam, woven form top to bottom.


Why is this significant?


The Bible often describes our behaviour as the clothes we wear. Peter urges us to be "clothed with humility" (1 Peter 5:5). David speaks of evil people who clothe themselves "with cursing"(Psalm 109:18). Garments can symbolize character, and like his garment, Jesus' character was seamless. He was like his robe: uninterrupted perfection.


"...woven.. from the top." Jesus wasn't led by his own mind, He was lead by the mind of His Father.


"Jesus gave them this answer: "I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does." - John 5:19


The character of jesus was like a seamless fabric woven from heaven to earth. But when Christ was nailed to the cross, He took off His robe of seamless perfection and assumed a different wardrobe, the wardrobe of indignity.


1) Indignity of nakedness: Stripped before His own mother and loved ones. Shamed before His family.


2) Indignity of failure: a few pain-filled hours, the religious leaders were the victors, and Christ appeared the loser. Shamed before His accusers.


3) Indignity of sin: "He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed." - 1 Peter 2:24


Jesus was not only shamed before people, He was shamed before heaven.


He felt the shame of the murderer and adulterer. He bore the disgrace of a liar. He felt the embarrassment of a cheater. Since He bore the sin of the whole world, He felt the collective shame of the world.


"Let us, then, go to him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore." - Hebrews 13:13


He offers a robe of seamless purity and dons our patchwork coat of pride, greed, and selfishness. "He changes places with us." - Galatians 3:13. He wore our sins so we could wear His righteousness.


We come to the cross dressed in sin, we leave the cross dressed in the "coat of his strong love" (Isaiah 59:17) and girded with a belf of "goodness and fairness" (Isaiah 11:5) and clothed in "garments of salvation" (Isaiah 61:10).


"For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ." - Galatians 3:27


Jesus gave up His clothes of righteousness, He gave them up and put them on you and I. Naked and struck with shame and indignity, shamed before heaven and earth, the son of God hung nailed to a cross.


What aspects of Christ's seamless character are most difficult for you to "put on"? What areas of life cause you the most struggles?


How can we accept Jesus' offer of a robe of seamless purity? A robe of salvation? Have you done so?