Day: June 25, 2022

The Mystery of the White Raiment

You must have wondered why we would not sin if we accept Lord Jesus as our Redeemer and Saviour? The answer to this lies in the colour ‘white’. Let’s unravel this mystery…….

If I ask you to get dressed in white clothing and then invite you to go for gardening, certainly you would say I’ve gone insane. And why wouldn’t you say so if I ask you to wear dark clothes for the same? There lies the answer!

If we take two garments ——one white and the other coloured (preferably very dark), and put the same amount of dirt on both, which will show up more? Obviously white!

Maintaining white clothes requires special washing so that the dirt is not ‘VISIBLE’ whereas dark clothes can be ‘declared’ clean even if they are not fully clean because their dirt is ‘NOT VISIBLE’.

But white shows up!

Similarly, when Lord Jesus washes us with His blood , He gives us ‘WHITE RAIMENT’——–‘pure souls’. Once we are washed i.e. have accepted the ‘Gift of Salvation’, we wouldn’t want to make our white raiments dirty ——-simply because it shows! In other words, we wouldn’t want to do anything Sinful(Dirty) because our regenerated beings would simply not accept it. We want to keep our white raiments clean!

A daily wash is required with the ‘detergent’ called the Word of God. And you would always be dressed in ‘sparkling white’!.

Also, the ones who have not accepted Christ are dressed in dark clothing. As a result, they are not much affected (‘dark clothes not revealing the dirt of sin’) or unaffected.

 In the Scriptures, the significance of white raiment and the colour white has been highlighted at many instances. Certainly, our Lord Jesus is dressed with the brightest white raiment, nothing compares with his brightness because He is the SOURCE of this ‘WHITE’. We all draw our ‘whiteness’ from Him!

And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.

Matthew 17:2   

He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

Revelation 3: 5  

• The Levites are considered to be the ‘chosen’ of the Lord for the work of His tabernacle. They are very special to Him and are clothed in white.
• Lord Jesus, by His sacrificial death has given us the status of a Levite! Clothed in white, we all are qualified for God’s work. We are his anointed, His chosen.  

Prayer

Heavenly Father, we thank you for taking away our filthy garments and giving us white raiment of priesthood. Lord, impart us the grace to maintain the purity of these garments by living a righteous life and abiding in Your Word.

In Jesus’s name, we pray,

Amen.

Sol. Neelam Sharma

“Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.”  Galatians 6:7

When God’s anointed King Saul feared that he might be slain by the uncircumcised people (1 Chronicles 10), he embraced death by falling on his own sword. All the men of Israel fled. No one came to give honour to the King chosen and anointed by God for them and they all left  for fear of their life

This incident tells us so vividly that whatever  one sows , he will reap. As King Saul didn’t keep the word of God and sought for a medium for guidance (1 Chronicles 10:13), he suffered and died a disgraceful death. He paid for what he did. So many scriptures confirm this truth. (2 Corinthians 9:6, Proverbs 1:31, 11:18, 22:8, Matthew 7:12, Luke 6:38)

In Jeremiah 17:10, God says, “I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”  

We are under a new covenant of ‘Grace’ that we received through the sacrifice of  our Lord Jesus Christ. Irony is that this Grace that is given to us freely, Today we as Christians fail to acknowledge it and take it for granted. Often I have  heard  the believers saying that now we don’t need to worry as Salvation is ours? I become speechless when they justify themselves and say that we just need to call upon the Lord and ask forgiveness every time we commit a sin.  Apostle Paul also must have faced such a thought from the believers  of that time with similar thought process . That’s what he says in

Let us sow God’s Word in our hearts disengaging  from the works of the flesh as then only we will bear fruit  of His Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) which will manifest in us and we will reap the joy of His precious Grace to the fullest.

   Prayer

Heavenly Father, give us the grace to hide your Word  in our hearts, so that we might not  sin against  you. We pray in Jesus name.

Amen.

Sol.Neha