It was 1:00 am on the morning we were going to my
brother’s place for three days and two loads of laundry had to be done. Of course, I didn’t know that until hubby
told me that morning he had no clean clothes; then I was busy all day and
forgot, finally relaxing to watch a movie after supper clean up and didn’t
remember until after midnight . Oops!
Well, that last load was drying at 1:00 and all was well by
morning. It’s important to have clean
clothes when visiting. In fact, imagine
going to meet the Prime Minister or President: would you wear filthy or ripped
up, mismatched clothes? Not unless it
was all you owned in life.
In fact,
some Christians feel strongly about wearing our best clothes for God when we go
to the local church. It is meant to be a
sign of respect, one I can’t fault if
the intentions are truly noble. However,
we should not judge others for what they choose to wear for they may have
different noble reasons for the way they dress (it must only be modest). Anyway, I think if we want to honour God,
perhaps a better sign of respect would be in order.
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Is this what we look
like on the inside?
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Instead
of making sure we toss our clothes in the laundry to clean them up, perhaps we
should ‘toss’ ourselves into the refining fire, in the water of the Word, or
into the blood of Jesus to clean us up from the inside before we appear in the
local church and try to relate to our brothers and sisters- better yet, before
we even appear in His presence. Would
that not be the best sign of respect we could offer? Instead of our arrogance in assuming He is
okay with our continual sin, worldliness and fleshly living without personal effort
to try to change, perhaps we should do our best to change our actions of all we
are able to as proof we love God more than ourselves.
Just a though anyway…
Behold, I have refined you… Is. 48:10
…Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for it,
that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word,
Ep. 5:25,26
…the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all
sin. 1Jh. 1:7