May 29

Zechariah 3:3‑4
 
“Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel. And He answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him He said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment”—Zechariah 3:3, 43Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel. 4And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment. (Zechariah 3:3‑4).
JOSHUA was the representative of a sinful people, and therefore he was seen in vision as clothed in filthy garments, but when Satan attempted to accuse him the angel of the Lord appeared as an advocate. The word went forth, “I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.” It is thus that God deals with all who turn to Him in repentance and who put their trust in the Lord Jesus Christ who bore our sins in His own body on the tree. The believer stands justified before God, and is in God’s sight as though he had never sinned at all.
“God who gave the blood to screen us,
God looks down in perfect love;
Clouds may seem to pass between us,
There is no change in Him above.
Though the restless foe accuses,
Sins recounting like a flood,
Every charge our God refuses;
Christ has answered with His blood.”
—Mary Bowley.