No Dress Code

Be alert. Be prepared.

So when we awoke this morning, the white stuff was back, blanketing fields and drive in icy cold snow. Going to Dundee after church for the Blue Water Tea Party to raise funds for Signpost, we took the smaller car, which is better in snow and ice. Instead of a blue party frock I wore trousers, two jumpers and a jacket, and knee-length, fur-lined boots.

After church, we drove into the sunshine, on cleared roads, beside brown fields, and arrived for the tea party where the other ladies were attired in pretty dresses. Oh well.

I was going to say that Jesus doesn’t have a dress code for heaven, when I remembered the rather uncomfortable story of the wedding guests who arrived improperly attired and were not allowed in. 

That story, though, refers to our spiritual attire – we are to be washed and clothed in the clean white clothes Jesus won for us at Calvary. We don’t have to earn the clothes – just believe that Jesus bought them for us.

There is no dress code for church, for heaven, nor for the Blue Water Tea Party. Signpost International is working hard to provide clean water for villages in Tanzania and Uganda, where polluted water sources serve all purposes – drinking, bathing, toileting, and spreading disease. There is no dress code for helping raise money for such a noble purpose.