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I have fond memories of getting all dressed up for Easter as a young girl back in the 1960s. Back then, girls wore gloves and hats, just like our mothers. I’ll never forget the first Easter I was permitted to wear hose, and my black patent shoes gleamed like glitter. Oh, those were the days. What to wear for Easter was a big deal.  

Fast forward sixty years. I very much enjoy watching my grandchildren dress up for Easter. Certainly, it’s different these days, but lovely, nonetheless. After all, Easter is a special day. We should look our best at church. And I’m still right there with everyone else. I want to look especially nice for Easter Sunday.

However, clothes, fashions, and accessories come and go. What may be in style now may not be trendy in the next few years. But the garments of salvation and the robes of righteousness? They will never go out of style.

Christ’s death on the cross allows us to stand complete in Him (Isaiah 61:10). When we accept Christ as our Savior, His death on the cross serves as our sufficient atonement, and we are covered with His righteousness. His birth, death, and resurrection allow us to wear the new garments of salvation.

I read a story about a little girl who walked in a cemetery with her father. She pointed to the graves and asked, “What are they, Daddy?” “Oh, they belong to the people who have gone to heaven,” he replied. She stared at the gravestones marking the different mounds of earth and thoughtfully decided, “This is where they leave their clothes, isn’t it?” She was right. They left their clothes in the grave, as we all will.

How thankful we can be on Easter Sunday, and really any day, that Christ’s death on the cross allows us to dress in eternal clothes that will always be in vogue with God.

Are you excited that you can wear the garments of salvation? Share this Good News with others.