I have got you covered

I’ve got you covered!

Picture this….

It unfurls, it unwraps, it reveals that which blows upon it.

It unveils, it reveals that which is hidden. It cannot be captured. It blows with the wind, with my spirit.

It does not absorb its circumstance, it’s surroundings, that which touches it! It adorns what is worn. It is the last raiment.

What is it?

It is the silk scarf.

Ezekiel 16:10-14 I clothed you also with embroidered cloth and shod you with [fine seal] leather; and I girded you about with fine linen and covered you with silk. I decked you also with ornaments and I put bracelets on your wrists and a chain on your neck. And I put a ring on your nostril and earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown upon your head! Thus you were decked with gold and silver, and your raiment was of fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth; you ate fine flour and honey and oil. And you were exceedingly beautiful and you prospered into royal estate. And your renown went forth among the nations for your beauty, for it was perfect through My majesty and splendor which I had put upon you, says the Lord God. Proverbs 6:20-23 Good friend, follow your father’s good advice; don’t wander off from your mother’s teachings. Wrap yourself in them from head to foot; wear them like a scarf around your neck. Wherever you walk, they’ll guide you; whenever you rest, they’ll guard you; when you wake up, they’ll tell you what’s next. For sound advice is a beacon, good teaching is a light, moral discipline is a life path. Luke 5:33-38 They asked him, “John’s disciples are well–known for keeping fasts and saying prayers. Also the Pharisees. But you seem to spend most of your time at parties. Why?” Jesus said, “When you’re celebrating a wedding, you don’t skimp on the cake and wine. You feast. Later you may need to pull in your belt, but this isn’t the time. As long as the bride and groom are with you, you have a good time. When the groom is gone, the fasting can begin. No one throws cold water on a friendly bonfire. This is Kingdom Come! ” No one cuts up a fine silk scarf to patch old work clothes; you want fabrics that match. And you don’t put wine in old, cracked bottles; you get strong, clean bottles for your fresh vintage wine.

“It’s time for the main course! Unfurling the covering, the wrapping. No sharp edges.”

“This is my table cloth. It needs no table, when it covers the broken it fills the gap. It cannot be bowed, it cannot be impacted by what is placed on it, it impacts and transforms what is placed on it. It cannot be ripped or torn, it has no bounds, cannot be bounded.”

And I saw a cloth with no table and with a single old solid rock chair. The command take a seat!

“I want to wait upon you!” “I want to wash your hands.”

My hands over a basin, with God cleaning my finger nails! Then running a bath.

“I have prepared a royal robe for you.”

“If I have covered the nothingness, and it supports that which is placed on it, how much more do I have you covered?”

But I cannot walk!

“I will carry you to the table, there is someone I want you to meet, for I have arranged it!”

2 Samuel 9:3 The king said, Is there not still someone of the house of Saul to whom I may show the [unfailing, unsought, unlimited] mercy and kindness of God? Ziba replied, Jonathan has yet a son who is lame in his feet. 2 Samuel 9:7 David said to him, Fear not, for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father’s sake, and will restore to you all the land of Saul your father [grandfather], and you shall eat at my table always.

“My covering hides that which I wish, and reveals that which I reveal – it will be an ornament.”

“As you divide and cut, I will restore and multiply.”

John 6:11-13 Jesus took the loaves, and when He had given thanks, He distributed to the disciples and the disciples to the reclining people; so also [He did] with the fish, as much as they wanted. When they had all had enough, He said to His disciples, Gather up now the fragments (the broken pieces that are left over), so that nothing may be lost and wasted. So accordingly they gathered them up, and they filled twelve [small hand] baskets with fragments left over by those who had eaten from the five barley loaves.

Restored fragments in his kingdom order. Food with bite marks restored to wholeness. Picture of meat being diced and divided but it multiplied each time it was cut. Dead food placed on the table, reproducing and multiplying. Animals placed on the covering turned to gold. A gold peacock!

“Use my ornaments to season the food and watch what happens.”

“Place my seed in the vase and watch it blossom.”

“Celebrate, pop the cork. Washed with my overflow, not plop plop plop, but pop, pop, pop like rice bubbles.”

Let us celebrate the goodness of God. For if he covers the table and adorns our neck with the finest materials, how much more has he got us covered. Praise be to God.

Walk in this truth, celebrate his goodness, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.