Tuesday, December 22, 2020

His Broidered Work

 I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee 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 beheld 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 shod with badgers' skins. The animal here meant is unknown, but its skin covered the tabernacle, and formed one of the finest and strongest leathers known. 

---Purity and dignity of our holy vesture are brought out in the fine linen. When the Lord sanctifies His people, they are clad 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.....

Come, my heart, refuse not thy evening hallelujah! Tune thy pipes! Touch thy chords!" Charles Spurgeon