Time To Get Rid Of Those Tacky Ill Fitting Clothes – DTOTD

I believe those are pieces of a godly wardrobe that we are all willing to try on. However, I also believe it is becoming more and more common for God’s chosen to believe that Compassion gets a bit confining when we decide someone’s decisions deserve suffering. We actively choose to take off Compassion at a time when we need to keep it firmly fastened. We may easily don Kindness until we decide if things don’t go our way we take off Kindness and replace it with Apathy. We may find putting on Humility seems like a really good choice for the day until we listen to the World and agree that we have outgrown Humility and need to replace it with Power. Patience and Tolerance are fantastic coordinating pieces. That is until we notice that Control is also hanging on the rack to try on. Those three pieces together make us look like we are walking garage sale rather than God’s chosen people who are holy and beloved.

Deuteronomy 4:2 states very clearly You shall not add to the word that I command you, not take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I command you. As God’s chosen people living a constant new life, we have to be aware of when we have intentionally taken off the wardrobe that God has picked out for us. We appear to pick and choose what commandments from God that we are going to follow depending on the situation and crowd. There isn’t a place on this outfit from God to add an accessory of offense, unforgiveness, spitefulness, anger, or judgment. Just like your mom told you to leave the house without clean underwear we can never leave the house without our garments of Love.

The world around us is finding all kinds of reasons to be unkind. Our culture is convincing even Christians that to demonstrate humility, quiet strength, and tolerance is to show weakness and lack of faith. We are falling into Satan’s trap that we should lead out of our faith with our tempers, irritability, impatience, meanness, condescension, and divisive talk. These are filthy ill-fitting clothes that are not becoming of God’s children.

My prayer is that we don’t see this scripture as a slap on the wrist to get right with God but as a reminder of who we are. We are God’s Chosen. Sons and daughters of the one True King. Colossians 3:14-17 shows exactly how to wear this godly wardrobe well.

And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

This week let’s ask God to dwell deeper in our hearts, minds, and souls. Lean into His instruction through His Word every day. We can’t afford to be fooled by what Satan is doing through the world right now. Let the peace of Jesus Christ rule our thoughts, words, and actions. Step into that closet of prayer and come out shining brightly in all the brilliant clothes of Love God has picked out for us.

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