What to Put On Today?

 

The question that most people ask every morning-"What will I wear, or put on today?" The weather and my mood are usually the determining factors for me! But, more importantly than the question of physical clothes I put on, I should be concerned with "What Spiritual  Clothes will I put on?"

 

When we wake up in the morning, we are wearing pajamas, as we call them, or "night clothes." These are the clothes we were wearing when we were supposedly "DEAD to the world." We take them off once the Sun has risen, and the NEW DAY starts. This is what happens to us spiritually as well when we are brought from death to life, from the darkness to the light, when we are saved. We are no longer DEAD in our sins and in the darkness, but ALIVE unto Christ, the SON and TRUE LIGHT OF THE WORLD! We are no longer of child of the darkness, but a child of the light! Just as we leave our "Grave clothes" behind when the Lord saves us, we need to take them off every morning when we awake. Even though we now have a new nature, our spiritual, we still have our old nature, or our flesh, to deal with. We have to daily PUT THEM OFF!  "MORTIFY (OR KILL) therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:...... In the which ye also walked some, when ye lived in them. But now ye also, PUT OFF all these anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have PUT OFF the OLD MAN and his deeds." Colossians 3:5,7,8 &9. Daily we need to determine to take off our clothes of the night, and put on our day clothes, so that we are prepared to live and work for the Lord. 

 

 Usually our night clothes show more of our physical body, or more of our self. Our day clothes SHOULD cover more of us, so that the world see less of us.(That's a whole different blog post in itself!) So should it be with our spiritual clothes. We should purpose to "die to self" and let the world see more of Him. " ...I die daily." I Corinthians 15:31. "He must increase, but I must decrease." John 3:30.

 

Not only do we have to PUT OFF grave clothes every morning, we have to PUT ON our GRACE clothes. "Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by GRACE ye are saved.)". Ephesians 2:5. "And have PUT ON the NEW MAN, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of HIM that created him." Colossians 3:10. "PUT ON therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;......And above all these things PUT ON charity, which is the bond of perfectness." Colossians 3:12& 14.Once we have put on our Grace clothes in the morning, we are ready to walk in His way and do what He would have us to do for Him. "For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we SHOULD WALK IN THEM." Ephesians 2:10.

 

Once we have determined to PUT ON the Grace clothes provided by the Lord, we are ready for His service. Is this not what He has left us here to do? May the Lord help us to not be guilty of INDECENT SPIRITUAL EXPOSURE! One day, we won't have to worry about these Grave clothes, or our flesh, We will be before Him in our ROBE OF WHITE-Revelation 19:8 "And to her (church) was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen IS THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF SAINTS!" So, today may we purpose to "PUT ON the new man, which after God is created in righteousness, and true holiness." Ephesians 4:24.  "For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:" Ephesians 4:12.