Galatians 3:26-29 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. There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Each morning I get up and get ready to go about my day, one of the key essentials to that process is getting my cloths and then putting them on, because the alternative is not an option for so many reasons. As a believer it is absolutely important that I cloth myself with Christ each day. That I put on Christ through spending time in the Word, prayer and other practices that the Bible makes clear should be put on as well. However where the rubber meets the road is whether or not I allow these practices to impact the way I live my life. The Bible exhorts us to not only be listeners to the Word but we must put it into action. Here in lies the problem. So often I allow "time constraints" or some other excuse to keep me from getting clothed spiritually each morning. As a result I face my day naked, exposed. As I face the challenges of that day my mind is not thinking about what the Word says and how to live it, but rather what I think and how I am going to live and without fail, I fail.
Father give me the determination and discipline each day to cloth myself with you. Help me each day to cloth myself with you so that I might face the challenges of each day depending on you and your strength and not my own.
What strikes me about this passage is the adoptive nature of my salvation. I become a child of God!!! When I first became a father I thought that it was a defining moment because I was passing on my family name. The name would continue after I was gone. In the same way, we are passing on the family name in our daily walk...the Name of Yahweh, the Name of the Father, the Name of Jesus Christ. The question is...are we daily bringing honor to that Name into which we have been adopted or are we sullying the Name by how we live? I know which side I want to be one...how about you?
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