WEAR YOUR WEDDING ATTIRE

 

So the servants brought in everyone they could find, good and bad alike, and the banquet hall was filled with guests. 11 “But when the king came in to meet the guests, he noticed a man who wasn’t wearing the proper clothes for a wedding. 12 ‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how is it that you are here without wedding clothes?’ But the man had no reply.

Jesus here likens the kingdom of God to a wedding banquet. It says that the wedding hall was filled with guests—both the bad as well as the good. The king noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes. He asked, “How did you get in here without wedding clothes…?” This passage contrasts for us the difference between the Old and New Covenants. It was not the goodness of the good that qualified them; it was not the badness of the bad that disqualified them. What counted at this wedding banquet was wedding clothes.

And so we as the sons of God let’s put on the new identity of Christ. Commit to showing up every morning assured that you have been clothed with Christ. In the New Covenant, the standards have changed. The question at the wedding banquet was “Where are your wedding clothes?” We are a new creation, and that new creation is Christ (2Cor.5:17). Our righteousness is not our own. Every time you find yourself working hard to gain an identity, or trying so hard to be good to gain people’s approval, or trying so hard to attain wealth to boost your identity, remember the old has gone, the new has come. Walk with your head up high because when clothed with Christ, you are clothed with perfection itself.