Wedding Garment

 "My friend how is it that you came in here without a wedding garment?" Matthew 22:12

In Matthew 22, Jesus tells a parable about a King who gave a wedding feast for his son. When the invited guests refused to come, he had his servants invite people from the streets. Then he noticed a man not in proper attire and asked him, "My friend, how is it that you came in here without a wedding garment?"

This reminds me of a wedding I attended. The groom's mother was in an ordinary shirt and pants. My sister Meldy, who is such a stickler for proper attire, spent the whole duration of the wedding thinking whether she should go home and get a gown for the mother to change into! She was sooo bothered!

 It is also very important to God that we are properly attired when we get to the heavenly banquet. All of us are invited. We are the people in the streets. We are the people dressed in the filthy rags of sin.

In ancient times, when people could not afford to dress formally enough to meet the King, you went to the Royal Wardrobe and there you would be helped into an outfit that would not insult the King. We ourselves cannot weave any garment beautiful enough to face God in, so we have to be robed with the righteousness of Jesus, washed white by the blood of the Lamb, paid for by Jesus' death on the cross.

Thank you Lord for my 'wedding garment’, fit for a princess!!