“Where did you get that outfit?”
Some people have the ability to pick the right outfit every day. My wife has told me that it depends on what “season” your hair and skin tone shows or what piece of fruit you are shaped like?!? I do great just to keep my socks matching. Picking what to wear on the outside may be difficult but choosing what to put on the inside of you is easy. In our New Testament scripture today Colossians 3:1-17, we are given the greatest fashion advice of all time.
8 But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. 9 Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. 11 Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.
12 Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. 13 Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. 14 And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
Wow, do you realize that we have the choice to pick up or put down all these “fashion” items! Slander has such an attractive appearance to our flesh and ego; if we can find fault in someone else we may feel better about ourselves. How about filthy language, that looks great on a person right?
What does God’s chosen people look like? What can we clothe ourselves with dearly loved? Yes, that list looks like HIM doesn’t it? So this is what I want to say to you today, “Where did you get that outfit?”
Blessings,
Pastor David
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