How are you dressed?
Are you concerned with what others think?
Feel that you may be out
of style, fashion, inappropriately dressed?
Did you hear someone comment about your attire?
As you see others what comes to mind?
You may find yourself formulating comments in your
mind about how others are dressed:
“Suit and tie -he is trying hard to impress,”
“baseball hat
in the building, obviously no manners and not a professional.
Does he hide a bald spot?”
“Torn
stockings, can’t she afford to keep those kids dressed?”
The list goes on and on and we all do
it, judging those around us and fearing their judgments in return.
As a friend once prayed
:
“Forgive me Lord for what I am thinking and thank you for not letting it come out of my
mouth!”
We were designed by God to be observant, and make judgments and
discernments in order to cultivate his garden.
This means spotting places for improvements,
and planning actions to make them happen.
But “the fall” gave us the twisted air of superiority
and the fear of inferiority.
Both these states translate into our bizarre obsession with our
clothing and the insidious little game of words on the topic.
How often when we stand to seek
God we merely dwell on the comments made about us, or those we would make about others.
It is a little obsession, but for some people it grows into an all consuming and total obstruction
to a state of presence with God.
Do you desire to be seated in the place of honor?
It is not
your attire that will get you there.
Discernment is in for cultivating his garden.
This means spotting places for improvements,
and planning actions to make them happen.
But “the fall” gave us the twisted air of superiority
and the fear of inferiority.
Both these states translate into our bizarre obsession with our
clothing and the insidious little game of words on the topic.
How often when we stand to seek
God we merely dwell on the comments made about us, or those we would make about others.
It is a little obsession, but for some people it grows into an all consuming and total obstruction
to a state of presence with God.
Do you desire to be seated in the place of honor?
It is not
your attire that will get you there.
Consider the very first clothing. Fig leaves, quick covering from embarrassment.
And the next set?
God slew animals and made them of skin, introducing the concept of death
to Adam and Eve in the making of the garments.
We have not changed in all these generations.
From the 6
th
chapter of Mathew
v. 25: "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life…what you
will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?
And why
do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell
you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God
clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not
much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
So do not worry, saying ….. 'What shall we wear?' For
the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek
first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
What's in your worship?
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