Joseph's Coat of Many Colors

9/18/2022

The other day I found one of my old hankies that had been used to wipe the paint off of a brush. It looked like an impressionist canvas. Then the Lord started talking to me about Joseph’s coat of many colors. When his dad, Jacob, had the coat made for him was a symbol of Jacob’s love for his son. Then God enlarged upon this with the wedding garment that is given to everyone that accepts Jesus into their heart and life.

This garment is as white as pure snow. Bleach cannot make it whiter than what God can. We put it on and feel so special because we are God’s child. Then we go about our life and we get busy and forget about the precious garment that we are wearing. When we forget how precious it is we start dabbling in things that we have no business with and when we do then look at that pure white garment it might not be white anymore. It could look like you splattered mud, paint, sin and other things that you had no business getting into and then you have on an old, tattered garment. When this happens, you will no longer be welcome in Heaven.

We, as Children of God, are to be aware that everything we do and every word we speak effects our witness to those around us. That witness or reputation is what draws others to find out more about God. Have you searched your heart to make sure there is nothing in your life that God would be unhappy about? If so, then repent and heed what Jesus said to the woman in John 8:1-11(go and sin no more).

C.I. Wilson

Heavenly Father, thank you for making our hearts pure and white so that we might spend eternity in heaven with You. Amen.