“I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers’ skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.” — Ezekiel 16:10

See with what matchless generosity the Lord provides for His people’s apparel. They are so arrayed that the divine skill is seen producing an unrivalled broidered work, in which every attribute takes its part and every divine beauty is revealed. No art like the art displayed in our salvation, no cunning workmanship like that beheld in the righteousness of the saints. Justification has engrossed learned pens in all ages of the church, and will be the theme of admiration in eternity. God has indeed “curiously wrought it.” With all this elaboration there is mingled utility and durability, comparable to our being shod with badgers’ skins. The animal here meant is unknown, but…

its skin covered the tabernacle, and
formed one of the finest and strongest leathers known. The righteousness
which is of God by faith endureth for ever, and he who is shod with this
divine preparation will tread the desert safely, and may even set his foot
upon the lion and the adder. Purity and dignity of our holy vesture are
brought out in the fine linen. When the Lord sanctifies His people, they are
clad as priests in pure white; not the snow itself excels them; they are in
the eyes of men and angels fair to look upon, and even in the Lord’s eyes
they are without spot. Meanwhile the royal apparel is delicate and rich as
silk. No expense is spared, no beauty withheld, no daintiness denied.

What, then? Is there no inference from this? Surely there is gratitude to be
felt and joy to be expressed. Come, my heart, refuse not thy evening
hallelujah! Tune thy pipes! Touch thy chords!

“Strangely, my soul, art thou arrayed
By the Great Sacred Three!

In sweetest harmony of praise

Let all thy powers agree.”

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