Buying with Gold

The Gold Standard

By William M. Self, Sr.

 

Our shame can only be covered by

Putting on righteousness

What are you wearing today?

 

Buying with Gold

I was in the bank the other day and had a lot

of change I wanted to convert into larger bills.

The teller noticed a Canadian nickel and

said we cannot accept Canadian money.

Although the US Dollar is accepted in many

countries, most of the time foreign currency has to

be exchanged before you can shop in another country.

One of the most popular things to shop for is clothes.

There are two things God says you can purchase from Him…

But you have to first exchange for or buy His Gold.

With His gold you can buy clothes.

You cannot shop anywhere and buy these

beautiful white garments except from God.

These garments cover shame.

Shame is guilt and embarrassment.

Shame is thought to come from

an older word meaning to cover.

I believe when God made Adam and Eve

He made them with perfect bodies.

I don’t think there has been a man or a

 woman with a more perfect body since.

Yet, when they sinned by disobedience

to God’s Word, the Bible says…

 Their eyes were opened and they realized

their nakedness and covered themselves.

Shame plays a powerful role in our lives…

 It makes us want to hide or cover up.

One of the most deceitful cover ups is denial…

 To act as if there is nothing wrong when there really is.

God has made a way for those of us who

see the truth and feel ashamed to be covered.

The only color clothes God sells is white.

Each garment is washed in the blood of Jesus.

White stands for righteousness.

Every day you and I make decisions on what to wear

based upon what we are doing and where we are going.

  

In the same way we need to buy…

 Pay the price to put on the right thing.

How much attention am I giving each day to wearing the right clothes?

How much attention do you and I give to putting on Righteousness?

When you put on white clothes, you must be very

careful with your actions so you don’t get them dirty.

If your shame is showing, cover it with righteousness.

 

Scripture Reading

Revelation 3:15-18 NIV

15 I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! 16 So, because you are lukewarm — neither hot nor cold — I am about to spit you out of my mouth. 17 You say, 'I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.' But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. 18 I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see.

Genesis 3:6-7 NIV

6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.