God recently placed in my heart that Jesus was the first partaker of what he taught. Jesus could not teach what He did without fully understanding and grasping what He taught others to do.
The other day I was reading Matthew 6:25-34. Jesus was talking about not worrying about your life...about what you wore or about what you ate...The thought came to me that all of this (the words Jesus just spoke in this passage) were from a man who was going to die naked on a cross...Did He know He was going to have to die naked on a cross?? Did He get, in advance, that clothes weren't important because there are more important things to be clothed in? Like being clothed in humility, which I am sure He was clothed in, as He hung there naked for all the world to see? Like being clothed in righteousness or in purity (What else are we to be clothed in??)?
Somehow I believe Jesus fully grasped what was to come. He knew that there were things of far greater importance than the clothes He would be stripped of. Things far more important than being naked on a cross for all the world to see. Something that was far greater to Him and to His Father...US! We are what it was worth for Jesus to die naked on a cross, clothed in humility, in order that we might be presented unto the Father, free from sin and dressed as Jesus' Bride, resplendant in rainment that He has picked out for us. Which makes me wonder...What will I be clothed in?
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