…Let your priests, O Lord God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints rejoice in your goodness.

2 Chronicles 6:41 ESV

The prayer is that the priests would be clothed with salvation. What does that mean? What other clothing are we given in Scripture? We are clothed with Christ, with garments of praise, and with robes of righteousness or with fine linen of our righteous acts. So, what does wearing salvation look like? It looks like Jesus. It looks like righteousness. It looks like praise. That’s what it looks like, so if it doesn’t…

…‘You shall not lack a man to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.’

2 Chronicles 6:16 ESV

If only…

I don’t want to write about “if only.” They are words of regret, but in this context they haven’t become a regret yet. It’s a conditional promise here.

The garments of salvation come with “if only” attached. If we want to be dressed in Christ’s salvation, we have to crucify self and put off our old man to be dressed in the new.

The righteousness and praise are natural byproducts of being alive in Christ. They will be there if we can say, “I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.”