Have you let Jesus clothe you in His righteousness?
Recently, Cameron wore a really cool jacket with colourful embroidery for a music video. The song became a hit, and so did the jacket! Cameron’s inbox was flooded with questions from people wanting to buy the same jacket, and videos started surfacing of parents buying similar jackets for their kids so that they could look like Cameron.🥰
When picturing the beautiful robe Joseph was given by his father in Genesis 37, I imagine it would’ve looked something like Cameron’s jacket, but even more extravagant. Probably full of colour and beautiful work.
Of course, we have no way of knowing what it looked like, but it was such a lavish gift that it clearly indicated his father loved Joseph more than his brothers.
Eventually, their hatred of Joseph, fueled by jealousy, gets the better of the brothers, and they sell Joseph into slavery. Joseph is stripped of his identity as a favourite son, his dignity as a free man, and even his most valuable possession, his beautiful robe.
Many years later, the tables have completely turned, and Joseph is now a king in Egypt; he can clothe all his brothers in brand-new clothes (Genesis 45:22).
While Jesus, God’s beloved son, was on the cross, completely naked, stripped of His dignity, about to give up His life, the soldiers were dividing up His clothes. Jesus’ undergarment was seamless, which made it so valuable that they agreed to cast lots to see who would get it (John 19:23-24).
Are you starting to see the connections here?
Just as Joseph ended up clothing his brothers as a sign of ultimate grace and forgiveness, so too does Jesus want to clothe us with new robes, so that together with Isaiah we might say:
I delight greatly in the Lord; my soul rejoices in my God. For He has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness – Isaiah 61:10
