THE GARMENTS OF OUR KING

     Do we wear the garments of our King? Do our garments testify of Him? Are we adorned with the perfume of His nature and His love? Being the perfume of the rose of Sharon? Does the atmosphere about us smack of the fragrance of myrrh and aloes and cassia? Being the sweet aroma of the sacred anointing?

     If so, may we wear You well, LORD. And if not, may we be brought to a place where we do wear You well, LORD! For just as Joseph received a multi-coloured coat prepared and hand made for him by his father, You have prepared a multi-coloured coat hand made for all Your sons and daughters representing the multi-dimensional nature of Your Spirit (Isaiah 11:2), which You have promised to give to all who ask (Luke 11:13), and to all who seek You with all their heart (Jeremiah 29:13). “Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?” ‭‭(Matthew‬ ‭6:30‬).

    Which is the sweet anointing of the sacred Helper whom You promised to send to all if You went back to be with Your Father in heaven. That we may all testify of You. That we may prove the good and acceptable and perfect will of our Father in heaven (Romans 12:2).

     “They are they which testify of me." (John 5:39)

    Of this, Charles Spurgeon writes: “Jesus Christ is the Alpha and Omega of the Bible. He is the constant theme of its sacred pages; from first to last they testify of him.

     At the creation we at once discern him as one of the sacred Trinity; we catch a glimpse of him in the promise of the woman's seed; we see him typified in the ark of Noah; we walk with Abraham, as he sees Messiah's day; we dwell in the tents of Isaac and Jacob, feeding upon the gracious promise; we hear the venerable Israel talking of Shiloh; and in the numerous types of the law, we find the Redeemer abundantly foreshadowed. Prophets and kings, priests and preachers, all look one way—they all stand as the cherubs did over the ark, desiring to look within, and to read the mystery of God's great propitiation.

     Still more manifestly in the New Testament we find our Lord the one pervading subject. It is not an ingot here and there, or dust of gold thinly scattered, but here you stand upon a solid floor of gold; for the whole substance of the New Testament is Jesus crucified, and even its closing sentence is bejewelled with the Redeemer's name.

     We should always read Scripture in this light; we should consider the word to be as a mirror into which Christ looks down from heaven; and then we, looking into it, see his face reflected as in a glass—darkly, it is true, but still in such a way as to be a blessed preparation for seeing him as we shall see him face to face.

     This volume contains Jesus Christ's letters to us, perfumed by his love. These pages are the garments of our King, and they all smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia. Scripture is the royal chariot in which Jesus rides, and it is paved with love for the daughters of Jerusalem. The Scriptures are the swaddling bands of the holy child Jesus; unroll them and you find your Saviour. The quintessence of the word of God is Christ.”