Making Ourselves Ready

Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory,

for the marriage of the Lamb has come,

and his Bride has made herself ready;

it was granted her to clothe herself

with fine linen, bright and pure" -

for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints.  

Rev 19:7,8  

I am thinking today about the beautiful interplay between 'making ourselves' ready and 'being granted' to clothe ourselves with righteous deeds.

Our salvation is completely a free gift.

None of us can claim that we have done anything to earn it, in fact we are all broken people who do breaking things.

But it has been granted to us to clothe ourselves with righteous deeds.

And with those righteous deeds we make ourselves ready for the great wedding day.