You say, I am rich, I have acquired wealth, and do not need a thing. But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked. I counsel you to buy from me white garments so you can cover your shameful nakedness." Revelation 3 verses 17 and 18.

The only qualification is a deep feeling of our necessity, our nakedness, and our shame, and a feeling that there is no other covering for a needy, naked, guilty soul but the robe of the Redeemer's spotless righteousness.

And when the soul is led to his divine feet,
Full of guilt, shame, and fear,
Abhorring, loathing, and mourning over itself,
And comes in the actings of a living faith,
In the sighs and cries of a broken heart,
In hungerings, thirstings, and longings,
Desiring that the Lord would bestow upon him that rich robe,
Then the blessed exchange takes place.

Then there is a buying. Then the Lord brings out His treasure house where it has been locked up. The best robe puts it upon the prodigal and clothes him from head to foot with it. Sweet buy. Blessed exchange. Our nakedness for Christ's justifying robe. Our poverty for Christ's riches. Our helplessness and insufficiency for Christ's power, grace, and love.

You say, I am rich, I have acquired wealth, and do not need a thing. but you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked. I counsel you to buy from me white garments so you can cover your shameful nakedness." Revelation 3 verses 17 and 18.

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