Remember the TLC show What Not to Wear?
The basic premise of the show is that people would nominate their friends to go through a clothing makeover with two fashionistas in a one hour episode for all the world to see.
To be fair, in order to be nominated, you had to have a pretty poor taste in clothing. But, you also had to be willing to listen and take the advice of show’s two “clothing experts” who would literally start by going through your closets and getting rid of most (if not all) of your wardrobe.
Watching the whole process unfold on TV was interesting. People clearly had their favorite sweaters and outfits (for example), and were reluctant to get rid of them. Sometimes, it was clearly painful for them to let them go.
But, they needed to.
They needed to let go of their old wardrobe if they wanted a new one.
And that got me thinking…
What if there was an episode of What Not to Wear based on Colossians 3 and we were all in it?
What if God went through our closets, looking for things that we needed to let go of?
What would He find lurking in our spiritual closets?
In Colossians 3:5-9, Paul gives us a partial list of things God might find…
Sexual immorality.
Lust.
Greed.
Anger.
Slander.
Dirty language.
Lying…
Just to name a few.
The bottom line is that these things don’t look good on us when we wear them. They are all part of our “old nature,” which Paul says we have “stripped off.” (Colossians 3:9)
The truth is, we all need a spiritual clothing makeover.
Because, to the people around us, we are what we wear.
So, we need to go through our spiritual closets and allow God to get rid of anything in them that doesn’t look like Him.
And, we also need to “put on our new nature, and be renewed as we learn to know our Creator and become like him.” (v.10)
We need to “clothe ourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience…and love.” (v.12 & 14)
Honestly, this can be a painful process, and it doesn’t happen in a neat and tidy one hour episode of our lives.
But, it needs to happen…because people are watching.
May God give you the strength and humility to go through your spiritual closets with Him today.
And, may what we wear point others to Him.
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