Heaven Land Devotions - Gardeners Garments of The Laboring Saints

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I really never gave it much thought about when Mary Magdelene supposed that Jesus was the gardener. Yes, her eyes were kept from the revealing of who it was she was talking with face to face. Yet I see something more.

So many illustrations and visual depictions of what the resurrected Christ looked like all seem to be the same. I too have had the same thoughts of Him in brilliant shining garments 'other worldly,' glimmering in afterlife heavenly apparel.

Like in the Mount of Transfiguration when, "He prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistering." Luke 9:29.

But that could not be the case here. Mary's eyes were withheld from seeing Him on purpose. "She knew not that it was Jesus." But she recognized Him as a gardener by what He was wearing.

Gardeners during those days wore simple, practical clothing as other working-class people adapted for manual labor, which distinguished them from wealthy individuals. They wore a knee length tunic of two pieces sown together made of linen or wool. They wore a belt of cord or cloth, or leather to hold tools. They wore a heavy outer garment to protect them from the hot sun and weather, and simple leather sandals. The colors of the tunic were undyed natural earthy colors like off whites, browns and grays.

I believe that Jesus wanted it this way on purpose. Because though His work was done, our work is not. In other words, "I am still working with you." These humble gardener's garments must be ours all the days of our lives as His laborers in the earth.

So, we too will always be seen as the gardeners of the Lord...sowing seeds of eternal life and light.

“I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Through Gates of Splendor