Every day I get up and have to decide what I am going to wear. I hate that part of my day. I am not really a clothes person. I derive very little joy in shopping for new clothes. I do it because I have to and ONLY when I have to. For the most part, I wear the same things all the time…from habit.
There’s something else that I wear out of habit….my past. I wear the shame of my sins far too often. I drag it out and put it on like an old worn t-shirt. When I wear it, I feel unworthy and dirty and ashamed. Yet I keep it in the closet instead of throwing it out. Why?
Paul tells us in Galatian 3:26-27:
“You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus,
for all of you who were baptized into Christ
have clothed yourselves with Christ.”
Jesus put to death the sins of my past. I do not need to resurrect them and try to wear them any longer. I am clothed in Christ. When God looks at me He doesn’t see that old ratty t-shirt that is my sinful past. He sees His beloved Son! Even when I drag out those old clothes of shame and try to wear them, Jesus still covers me. I have a white robe, He promises. Why would I want to wear anything else?
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