The Righteousness of Man

But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. (Isaiah 64:6)

Isaiah says that our righteousness is like filthy rags when compared to the righteousness of God. The idea for this banner came to me when I pulled a dirty, torn piece of linen out of the bottom of a drawer. All I needed to do was label it. I couldn’t resist adding some trompe l’oeil houseflies and mending the rips with scarlet thread, a reminder of Christ’s blood, which is, as the Gospel warns us, the only possible restorative agent.