God’s Word is full of references of clothing. From the beginning, clothing was and issue with God. When Adam and Eve fell into sin, God clothed them. Genesis 3:21 says, “Unto Adam also to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.” When God established the priesthood with Aaron under Moses’ supervision, God gave very specific instructions on the clothing that the High Priest should wear. These instructions even included the undergarments. God even gave instructions concerning the man’s cloak. If the man should use his cloak as security for a loan, the cloak must be returned to the person at nightfall so that he will be warm.
Throughout the Bible are many colorful stories regarding great men and women of God and the clothing they wore. Joseph had a coat of many colors, Solomon wore the finest fabrics known to man, John the Baptist wore a garment of camel skin, and Jesus had a garment that was woven without a seam.
God places great emphasis on how we dress. Modesty is perhaps one of the most recurring Bible themes concerning clothing. God also teaches that we should not be blown back and forth by every whim of style and fad. Rather, we should clothe ourselves with humility of spirit and good deeds. God’s word in Matthew 6:30 says, “Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall not he much more clothe you, Oh ye of little faith.”
There is one more aspect of God and clothing that should be examined. All garments are meant in one form or another to be a covering for our bodies. As discussed earlier, God clothed Adam and Eve because of their sin and the resultant knowledge of Good and Evil. Adam and Eve tried to cloth themselves with leaves, but this was inadequate. In the same way, we today are naked in our sin. We need a covering so that we might stand before God. All of mankind’s attempts at finding a covering for their sins have failed as Adam and Eve’s did. But God himself has provided a covering for us. Just as the animals had to die in order for God to fashion garments for Adam and Eve, even so God’s own Son died, that his blood might be a covering for our sins.
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