Raise your hand if you like wearing new clothes. Raise your hand again if you love looking at brides in their gowns. One more time if you agree that the best-fitting clothes are also the most expensive. Okay, your family's starting to look at you, so put your hand down. By the way, isn't my daughter-in-law gorgeous in her wedding dress?

Well, piggy-backing off of Pastor Jim's sermon on Psalm 45, we'll be talking in Sunday school this week about the clothing God provides for us, His bride. Verses 13 and 14 say this about us: All glorious is the princess in her chamber, with robes interwoven with gold. In many-colored robes she is led to the king. . . ." These stunning robes have been provided by the king. We, Christ's bride, couldn't possibly afford them, not soaked in our own self-absorption and self-gratification as we are. In fact, left to ourselves apart from His work in our hearts, we don't even want to be His bride; we just want the pretty clothes and sumptuous feast. But God began clothing us directly after the fall; remember the fig leaves that didn't work very well? And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them. (Genesis 3:21) Whew.

Join us this Sunday as we take a long look at the clothing God has so lavishly provided us throughout history.