The Robe by Charles Spurgeon

God's children are wrapped around with a robe, a seamless robe, which earth and heaven could not buy the like of it were it once lost. For texture, it excels the fine linen of the merchants. For whiteness, it is purer than the driven snow. No looms on earth could make it, but Jesus spent his life to make my robe of righteousness. There was a drop of blood in every throw of the shuttle, and every thread was made of his own heart's agonies.

It is a robe that is divine, complete, a better robe than Adam wore in the perfection of Eden. Adam had but a human righteousness, though a perfect one, but we have a divinely perfect righteousness. Wonderfully, my soul, are you arrayed, for your Savior's garment is on you. The royal robe of David is wrapped about his Jonathan.

Look at God's people as they are clothed also in the garments of sanctification. Was there ever such a robe as jeweled as that? Every day he arrays the lowliest of his people as though it were a wedding day. He arrays them as a bride adorns herself with jewels. He will have them dressed in gold of offer. What riches of grace, then, must there be in God, Who thus clothes His children?

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