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“The Glorious Garment of Joseph” which Thou gavest Me to do. And now, O
might have been emblazoned in Father, glorify Thou Me with Thine own self
large font atop the fashion section with the glory which I had with Thee before
of the Shechem Times. In smaller the world was” (vv4-5). If this second gar-
print below, Reuben might have questioned ment of Genesis provides a picture of Christ,
the cost and excess displayed in such a coat. then it is the first garment of Genesis which
Judah might have gone so far as to suggest pictures our spiritual attire. Adam and Eve
that there should be regulations against such discarded their feeble, hand-woven fig leaves
glorious attire. None of the details imagined as they left the garden wearing the garments
above are recorded for us in the biblical ac- God had provided. Similarly, you and I have
count, but rather the simple truth that there been clothed with the garments of salvation,
was a father (Jacob) who wished to honor his and, since we have been given such glorious
well-loved son (Joseph). Perhaps Jacob spiritual attire, we might question what
should have considered the feelings of his should characterize our earthly clothing. As
other sons and the unintended consequences Adam and Eve entered a post-Edenic world
that might result given their jealous hearts of fashion, so you and I must ask, as believers
and questionable character. However, this in a physical world, how ought we to dress
glorious garment of Genesis, rather than giv- ourselves?
ing us direction and understanding as to our
personal attire, instead provides a patriarchal We might naturally be inclined to answer
picture of the glory that the Father has given such a question by providing a list of per-
to the Son. The prayer of the Son in John 17 sonal preferences, sprinkled with tradition
speaks clearly of His glory: “I have glorified and mingled with a measure of personal con-
Thee on the earth: I have finished the work viction. Yet, my personal preference is of no
