Janie, with her new dress on, was ready to go to Sunday school. “Isn’t it nice?” she whispered to her mother as she kissed her good-bye.
“Yes, very nice,” said her mother, “but I would like to know for sure that my little Janie had on ‘the best robe’.”
The Sunday school lesson was about the prodigal son in Luke 15.
“The father said to his servants, ‘Bring forth the best robe and put it on him’.” vs. 22. When the teacher read that verse, Janie remembered what her mother had said about the beat robe.
What a change for the poor prodigal in all his filthy rags, to have the best robe put on him. Yet that is what God does for sinners who return to him from the far country of sin. All our supposed goodness, good deeds, nice personality, church-going and such, are no better than filthy rags to Him, if we do not have Christ as our Saviour.
“But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags,” in His sight. (Isaiah 64:66But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. (Isaiah 64:6).) But those who put their trust in Jesus He washes from all their sins, and they have Christ from henceforth as their robe of righteousness. He sees them in all the loveliness of Christ.
“There’s a robe for little children,
Above the bright blue sky.”
ML-05/10/1964