OUR FATHER WHO PROVIDES HIS PEOPLE WITH GARMENTS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS

Psalm chapter 5 verses 1 - 2 says this;

Listen to my words, Lord, consider my lament.

Hear my cry for help, my King and my God, for to you I pray.

This passage records the psalmist calling on God to listen to his words and to consider his lament.

The psalmist then describes the ones who the Lord does not allow to bring prayers and requests  before Him; Those who are wicked, evil, arrogant, liars, bloodthirsty and duplicitous.

The ones who are welcomed by the Lord are the ones who are righteous, humble, truthful, peaceful and without guile.

Even as the psalmist calls for the Lord to consider His lament, the Lord Jesus, in Matthew chapter 6 verse 28 - 30, calls on His people to consider how the Lord arrays even the short-lived lilies of the field in splendor. 

If He does this for the lilies, how much more will the Lord clothe His people in righteousness.

“So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

For those who put their trust in God, to meet the standard of righteousness required so that they can bring their requests before Him, they need not worry about where their garments of righteousness will come from.

The Lord will provide His people with the righteousness needed to approach God with laments and requests.

God, through the sacrifice of the perfect Lamb of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, made it possible for us to be clothed in righteousness through faith and we need not worry about how to be righteous but rather we can be assured that the Lord will provide us with the righteousness we need.

Amen.

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