A New, Clean Robe

I guess I never realized how cool some of the Old Testament stories were; just how significant they were; how many references there were to Christ. God really shows just who He is and His character throughout the whole Old Testament. I never knew how many stories and passages show exactly who He is and how everything God did was part of this amazing plan and how it all weaves together.

So anyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyways. Back to what I was actually going to post about. Lol. Samuel has a pretty cool story going on there.


Samuel 18:1-4 - "After David had finished talking with Saul, Jonathan became one in spirit with David, and he loved him as himself. From that day Saul kept David with him and did not let him return to his father's house. And Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself. Jonathan took off the robe he was wearing and gave it to David, along with his tunic, and even his sword, his bow and his belt."

Ok, well this story won't have too much significance without some background info/analysis (thanks to Beth Moore =]...I'm not that smart to put all this together all by myself). Johnathan was the royal son of King Saul. He wore royal robes and had the riches of the kingdom at his disposal, and what he wanted, happened. And what he wanted was Daniel to have what he did, so much that he changed places with him.

Daniel, however was just a shepherd boy. He was poor and had very little, he was a servant to King Saul. He wore a simple robe, and it was probably old and ragged and smelled like sheep and sweat. This story doesn't record how David felt; this covenant was based on Johnathan's love, not his.

The covenant that is being referred to was, "I will become what you are and you will become what I am, and our souls will be knit together as one." Pretty cool, huh? This is the same covenant Christ made with us. And like the covenant between Johnathan and David (and also other covenants, like the ones between God and Adam and God and Abraham). It has nothing to do with our love for God, it has everything to do with His love for us.

1 John 4:10 -"Herein this is love, not that we loved God, but that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins."

2 Corinthians 5:21 - "He that hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him."

This story really hits home for me; it gives me so much comfort. It is so cool that Christ gave me His robes, but what I find even cooler is that He put on my robes. The way I interpret this means that He knows better than anyone what it is like to be in my skin. I know it is SO frustrating for me when I feel like nobody understands or even if I could make them understand, I wouldn't know how to explain it. I don't even totally know what it is like to be in my skin myself, lol. I tend to think the opposite, that Jesus didn't go through what I did, He was here so long ago, he didn't have the same things to deal with. But if I look deep down, the same things I feel, I am sure He felt too. Idk, like I said, its just really cool to me. The idea that someone totally understands me.