Chapter Thirteen/Buy Gold Refined by Fire- Applying Spiritual Salve

Jesus also sternly admonishes those Laodiceans: "Buy . . .white outer garments that you may become dressed and the shame of your nakedness may not become manifested, and eye salve to run in your eyes that you may see." (Revelation 3:18b) They should seek a cure for their spiritual blindness by purchasing curative eye slave, not that of the local healers, but the kind that only Jesus can provide.  This would help them to get spiritual discernment, helping them to walk in "the path of the righteous ones" with their beaming eyes focused on doing God's will.  (Proverbs 4:18, 25-27) Thus, they may put on, not the costly garments of black wool made locally in Laodicea, but fine "white outer garments" that proclaim their privileged identity as followers of Jesus Christ. - Compare 1 TIMOTHY 2:9, 10; 1 PETER 3:3-5. 

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