New Clothes

 

I remember when I started my first real job. My employer didn’t have a formal dress code but the men were expected to dress in a suit and tie every day. I went out and bought a whole new wardrobe. I looked like a different person in my new clothes from the T-shirt and jeans college student that I had been only weeks before.

 

In Colossians Chapter 3 we are told to have a spiritual “change of clothes”. We are called to rid ourselves of “whatever belongs to your earthly nature” (Col 3:5). In its place, Paul tells us to ”Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience…..and over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity” (Col 3:12, 14).

 

It’s human nature to judge a person by the clothes they wear. In the same manner, people will judge Christians, and Christianity itself, by the way we present ourselves. We are called as Christians to be a light to the world. We should always try to wear our new “spiritual clothes” so that we may witness as to who we are and what we believe. Ask the Holy Spirit to give you an abundant wardrobe!