New Clothes

 

 You have clothed yourselves with a brand new nature that is continually being renewed as you learn more and more about Christ, who created this new nature within you.  Colossians 3:10 (NLT)

Clothing, our outward appearance, is the first thing people notice about us.  It creates that first impression and people make assumptions about who we are based on what they see on the outside.

What we wear on the outside reflects what is in our hearts.  Our faith in Christ has created within us a new person. That new person has been given a new set of clothes to wear.  If we walk in our old ways even our best outfit is described as filthy rags (Isaiah 64.6).  When we put on Christ it is as if we are wearing a beautiful set of new clothes. 

Clothe yourselves with a heart of mercy, kindness,

humility, gentleness, and patience,

  bearing with one another and forgiving one another,

if someone happens to have a complaint against anyone else. 

And to all these virtues, add love which is the perfect bond.  

Let the peace of Christ be in control in your heart, 

for you were in fact called to this peace, and be thankful.

Col 3:12-15 (NET)

Lord,  thank you for the new clothes you have given us to wear.  Let us put them on each morning and remember to keep them wrapped tightly about us as we go through our day.

I am overwhelmed with joy in the Lord my God! For he has dressed me with the clothing of salvation and draped me in a robe of righteousness. I am like a bridegroom in his wedding suit or a bride with her jewels.

Isaiah 64:10 (NLT)