“Put on your new nature, created to be like God—truly righteous and holy.” (Ephesians 4:24 NLT)
If you are like most of us, you spend quite a bit of time wondering what you are going to wear on any given day. Today is no exception and you probably followed the same routine. You put together outfits! You checked your actual or mental journal to see what you wore on previous days. You tried on this and tried on that ensemble. Your full-length mirror served it’s intended purpose and in unspoken words looked forward to its morning break. . Finally, you came up with your “outfit” for the day! (And you wonder why you must set your alarm clock early or why you opt to go through the routine the night before. But even the latter does not always work.)
I looked up some statistics and found some interesting things. According to The Telegraph, a recent study found that the average woman, in the course of her lifetime, spends almost one year standing in front of her closet deciding what to wear. The study–which polled 2,491 women and was based on an adult lifetime from age 16 to 60–found that women spend an average of 16 minutes deciding what to wear on weekday mornings and 14 minutes on Saturdays and Sundays, for a whopping 287 days spread out over their lives. Brothers reading this, know that you are not off the hook. According to the Complex Network, research by the London-based retailer Marks & Spencer, men spend around 13 minutes each day picking through their wardrobe. That adds up to about three days per year and four months total between the ages of 18-60.
I may not be able to give you any expert advice of what to wear today as it relates to your apparel, but I can give you some advice that relates to your recommended outfit, appropriate for every child of God. I did not make it up! I merely found it in the word of God. Check it out! You can read this advice and agree with it in less than 13-14 minutes! Be blessed!
“But that is not the way you learned Christ!—assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger and give no opportunity to the devil. Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.” (Ephesians 4:20-29 English Standard Version)
Still committed to the climb,
Mark L. King