The ABCs of God's Love Letter: Garment

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​The ABCs of God's Love Letter
25 Weeks. 25 Writers!

We will use the alphabet as an acrostic and study topics like: Abide, Beloved, Calling, Delight, Endure, Faithful, Garment, Hunger, Increase, Justice, Kindness, Light, Manna, Name, Ordain, Path, Quench, Ransom, Salt, Testify, Upright, Vanity, Wait, Yield, and Zeal.

Every week, we’ll discover a different topic. Each topic is accompanied by five Scripture verses—one for each weekday. The Bible study has a page for each verse. Those spaces will invite you to write the verses out and journal what you’ve learned.

Every time I read God’s Word I learn something new. I also find that Scripture writing really helps me meditate, and as I meditate, God always shows me just what I need for that day—it’s AMAZING!

​I pray you’ll join us and learn new and exciting things too from His Word.

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This Week We're Looking at Garment

How do you feel about clothing? There’s no doubt that what we wear speaks to who we are. Some prefer the classic lines of a business suit. Others feel comfy in yoga pants and a T-shirt. Sometimes our circumstances dictate the appropriate garment to don. A bride usually wears white, while those in mourning wear black. We can glean so much about someone simply by the clothes they wear. 

Did you realize the Bible has quite a bit to say about garments? The first time we see anyone using clothing, Adam and Eve were ashamed after committing that first and far-reaching sin. As time went on, ancient peoples regarded clothing as a status symbol, a spiritual expression, and even a means to healing. ​​

Dressed with Strength
The highly-regarded Proverbs 31 woman made linen garments to sell. (Proverbs 31:24) How she would have toiled to grow the fax plants, harvest them, spin the linen fibers, and weave beautiful cloth. This process was more labor intensive than creating wool fabric due to the fragility of the linen fiber. Linen, though, provided people in the sun-drenched Middle East with protection from the blazing rays while being breathable and cool. How clever and industrious was this woman with the unmatched drive to provide for her family!

Hearts or Garments?
In ancient days, mourners tore their clothing and sprinkled themselves with ashes. These outward signs of grief indicated their sorrowful state. Joel, however, records God beseeching His people to rip apart their hearts, not their garments, as a symbol of contrition and repentance. (Joel 2:13) We would do well to learn from this example, allowing our own hearts to break for individual and collective sins and seeking God as our True Hope and Restoration.

A Healing Faith
Do you remember the woman who had a bleeding disorder? For 12 years this woman suffered, spending everything she had just to be healed. To no avail. ​

What faith it took, following the failure of every doctor, for her to press through the crowds with the goal of simply touching His garment. (Mark 5:28) What a swirl of emotions must have assailed her when she approached Jesus, looking Him in the eye to confess what she had done. Imagine the overwhelming joy she experienced to know her illness was finally over… all because she had the faith to touch the garment of God incarnate.

Our Eternal Wardrobe
We may all have different tastes and preferences in our clothing, but one thing is true for all Christians: when Jesus returns, we’ll be clothed in beautiful white garments, never to be blotted from the Book of Life. (Revelation 3:5) What a glorious promise. What will we do until we receive our eternal wardrobe? God calls us to be faithful and abide in Jesus, keeping His commands and relying on the Holy Spirit for guidance, teaching, and intercession. This final garment will, without a doubt, be the most costly and dear that we will ever wear. Jesus gave His own life for it. May we be found worthy to don it.

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​LeighAnne and her husband live in the beautiful state of South Carolina. They have two adult children who are both school teachers. Their Christian faith has been central to their marriage, child-rearing, and lives.

LeighAnne has a degree in chemical engineering and has spent much of her professional life in environmental compliance. But what she really loves to be is creative—painting, turning one person's junk into treasure and repurposing it.

In 2017, fulfilling a long-time dream, she self-published a children’s book, The Little Vessel.

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The Artist has just created a new little vessel, but this new little vessel has many questions about her purpose. ​

​Some of the others in the Artist's studio make fun of the new little vessel for being different, but her encouraging friend, the teacup, reassures her of the Artist's loving plans for her.

​The Little Vessel begins to doubt these plans, however, when she must endure a very uncomfortable situation. Discover how the Artist brings her through the pain and uses the little vessel to achieve her purpose.

The Little Vessel is a modern-day parable, perfect for reading to children. Following the story you'll find several questions designed to help the more mature reader (tweens, teens, and adults as well) delve deeper into God's Word. 

​Drawing parallels with the little vessel's experiences, the questions encourage consideration of how God is working in the reader's life to accomplish His will.

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LeighAnne's favorite Bible verse is Proverbs 3:5, "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding."

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​The ABCs of God's Love Letter Scripture Memory Cards

The ABCs of God's Love Letter Bible Study is accompanied by a collection of 25 5 X 5 Scripture Memory Cards. We'll utilize this great tool to help us memorize a Scripture verse once a week that goes with the topic we're studying that week. Hiding God's Word in our heart is so important!

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​What does Garment mean to you?