Clothed in Glory
Devotions:
“Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.” Jeremiah 2:32 KJV
God makes an amazing inference here, He suggest that a bride in all her glory that she wants to present on her wedding day is a figure of our spiritual clothing that comes from the presence of God. This is Old Testament here where God is talking through the prophet, how much more are we to walk in the presence of God. The more we spend time in His presence the more we are covered with His glory. When Adam and Eve were created they were covered with the glory of God. They did not notice their nakedness until they sinned. Then the light went out. Jesus walked in the glory of the Father but you could not necessarily see it with your physical eye but only once, when He went up on the mount and was transfigured before Peter, James and John. But the people could sense it with their spirit even though they were spiritually dead.
“But if the ministry of death, in letters engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, fading as it was, how will the ministry of the Spirit fail to be even more with glory? For if the ministry of condemnation has glory, much more does the ministry of righteousness abound in glory. For indeed what had glory, in this case has no glory because of the glory that surpasses it. For if that which fades away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory. Therefore having such a hope, we use great boldness in our speech, and are not like Moses, who used to put a veil over his face so that the sons of Israel would not look intently at the end of what was fading away...
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.”
2 Corinthians 3:7-13, 17-18 NASB
God calls us to come into His presence that He may dress us with His glory which has far more splender than the finest wedding dress or any other adornments. Women many times want beautiful clothes, wonderful makeup, hair beautifully done ( and there is nothing wrong with wanting to look nice) but how much more does our Father have in His garments of holiness and righteousness manifesting His glory, His goodness. Spend time with Him!