What
Are You Going to Wear for Easter?
For
He has clothed me with the garments of salvation, He has covered me with the
robe of righteousness. Isaiah 61:10 (NKJV)
I have fond memories of getting all dressed up for
Easter as a young girl back in the 1960s. Back then, girls wore gloves and hats,
just like our mothers. I’ll never forget the first Easter I was permitted to
wear hose and my black patent shoes gleamed like glitter. Oh, those were the
days.
Fast forward sixty years. I very much enjoy watching
my grandchildren dress up for Easter. Certainly, it’s different these days, but
lovely nonetheless. After all, Easter is a special day. We should look our best
at church. And I’m still right there with everyone else—I want to look
especially nice for Easter Sunday.
However, clothes, fashions, and accessories come and
go. What may be in style now may not be trendy in the next few years.
But the garments of salvation and the robes of
righteousness? They will never go out of style. Christ’s death on the cross
allows us to stand complete in Him. When we accept Christ as our Savior, his
death on the cross serves as our sufficient atonement, and we are covered with
His righteousness. His birth, death, and resurrection allow us to wear the new
garments of salvation.
I read a story about a little girl who was walking in
a cemetery with her father. She pointed to the graves and asked, “What are
they, Daddy?” “Oh, they belong to the people who have gone to heaven,” he
replied. She stared at the gravestones marking the different mounds of earth
and thoughtfully decided, “This is where they leave their clothes, isn’t it?”
She was right. They left their clothes in the grave.
As we all will.
How thankful we can be on Easter Sunday that Christ’s
death on the cross allows us to dress in eternal clothes that will always be in
vogue with God.
Becky Van Vleet
Becky Van Vleet is a retired teacher and principal and award-winning multi-genre author. She has been published in Guideposts, The Country Register, and Christian Devotions Ministry. Her children’s picture books are the recipients of the 2020 Excellence in Editing award as well as the Purple Dragonfly award in 2020 and 2021. She and her husband make their home close to Colorado Springs where she enjoys gardening, hiking, oil painting, power walking, and spending time with her family, especially reading books to her grandchildren.
Becky is the author of Unintended Hero, a true
story about her father’s battles, experiences, and adventures in WWII aboard
the USS Denver. She is passionate about sharing the values from the
Greatest Generation and enjoys speaking to high school classes about
patriotism.
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