There plenty of mediocre believers. Going through a garden one will find plenty of vegetables some for harvest, some barely ripe, and others rotten to the core. The other day taking some old flannel shirts and preparing to make quilting blocks. One shirt was torn at the bottom on the backside. Very odd place to have a tear. Yet on closer examination there was nothing else wrong with the shirt. The material still good and useable, just needed to cut the one spot completely out. When God begins to do a work in a believers life, he takes and removes anything unusable. Our garments upon faith in Christ are purified by the blood of Christ Jesus. Yet though our sins be washed away and we become white as snow in the since of sin free, not color of skin, but the color of the heart and mind stain with impurities of this world and our own ability to sin. Our wedding garment comes with the belief of God’s word as we receive salvation for our sins. Our wedding garment once purified gets taint with sin and unbelief from time to time, need purging from above. Yet with out the purification continual process our garments become unfit for use, unless it be cleansed with fuller soap of the word of God.

The problem comes can one loose salvation, the answer can God use the tatter wedding garment and make repairs or make something new of it? If God can prune a bush, He can take the wedding garment and get the stain outs or cut away the bad and pouring oil on to heal like the robots in the terminator movies, making the garment whole again. Yet without the wedding garment we have nothing to protect us from the wrath of God.

In the story the king sees a man under dressed for the wedding. The king said to go into the highways and by ways and bring them in, but there is always the curiosity seeks, with no desire to be a part of kingdom. They come for the dinner as scavengers with no desire for the bread of life. It is actors who try out for the drama of a play and is told they are unworthy of the lead role. Without the cleansing power of Christ we can never be the bride/ church. The believers are the small bit actors of the stage that as only a single part of play and yet together we make the grade of being a star production for God’s kingdom. The only one that does not fit into God’s kingdom is the one with lack of faith. How can one be in the presence of almighty God and still not have a wedding garment on. Jesus walked the earth but many understood not who He was. It just goes to show not all that meet God will believe even with seeing the bounty of the table of God. Salvation comes with faith. Judas was at the dinner of the Lord’s supper only to be cast out, not by force but by his duty to betray Jesus, yet his betrayal would cost him his life. If Judas could of only repented, then he would of known the grace of the Lord.

Dear Heavenly Father let your grace abound in us, give us the hope and assurance of salvation with faith, so we are not without a wedding garment. In Jesus precious name, Amen.