A beautiful pattern is woven all through the Bible, though it can be easy to overlook at first. Again and again, God is shown clothing His people. In Scripture, clothing is more than something worn on the body. It becomes a picture of mercy, honor, and God’s desire to deal with human shame not by exposing it, but by covering it. When that pattern is followed from Genesis to the New Testament, it leads to a powerful truth: through the completed work of Jesus Christ, believers are clothed in His righteousness. We first see this in Eden. After Adam and Eve disobeyed God, they suddenly became conscious of their nakedness and felt the weight of shame. Genesis says, “Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths” (Genesis 3:7). Their instinct was to fix the problem themselves. They tried to cover their guilt with something of their own making. But what they made could never truly solve what sin ha...