I have to admit that I enjoy watching Randy in "Just Say Yes to the Dress" (and the other person in Atlanta, Monte) as they help brides to select the dress for their wedding days. Both Randy and Monte, dress designers, bring an incredible range of people skills to work for each person. It is far more than what covers the exterior! It must match the interior spirit. Not easy work to do by any means. No, let me say that not all motivations are necessarily those that I would affirm. But the same point is there--to match the interior spirit with the external dress.
Then I switch to Jesus and his saying about clothing. He takes it one step further. Match the external with God the Holy Spirit that abides within. Clothe yourself with faith in the Spirit.
And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, 29yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. 30But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? Matthew 6:28
The problem is one of taking off all that covers us up. With trust, wear the clothing of faith in God alone--that you can truly be who you are. Wear a smile, wear openness toward others, wear the reaching out of your life to help others--got the idea?
I have often heard that the Christian wears things inside out--take the interior presence of the Spirit, your faith in God--and say yes to that dress.
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