May 15th, 2020 – Morning Devotion With Pastor Dan
We get up every day and get dressed, putting on some sort of garb to start the day. Sometimes it’s formal wear, and sometimes it’s casual wear. Either way we have it conditioned in us to get up, clean up, and then the first thing we do is put something on. But do you know that the Bible also tells us to get dressed? Oh, we are used to putting on the clothes we are going to wear for the day, but how many know that there is something greater and of more importance to put on.
(Galatians 3:27)…..For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
(Romans 13:14)…..But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.
The word used here for “put on,” is the same that is used in regard to putting on clothes. We have put on the “new man,” and we have the new nature as a garment that is worn, by means of which all can see who we are. Paul says of the Christian when he has confessed Christ at baptism, that he has put on Christ. As a man may be recognized by the garment he wears, so the Christian is known as one who has put on Christ, and exhibits Him his whole life and character.
Notice that Paul also says, “Put on the Lord Jesus Christ.” Not alone at conversion, but from day to day this is to take place. As I put on my clothes each day and am seen in them, so the Christian must daily put on the Lord Jesus, so that he no longer lives after the flesh to fulfill its lusts, but shows forth that image of his Lord, and the new man formed in His likeness.
Andrew Murray
Putting on Christ must be done every day when we arise and begin our day with our Lord. We must put Him on. As my garments cover us and protect us from the wind and sun, even so Christ Jesus will be our beauty, our defense, and our joy. As we commune with Him in prayer, He imparts Himself to us, and strengthens us to walk as one who is in Him, and bound to Him forever.
We need to take time to meditate on this wonderful truth. Just as our clothing is a necessity as we go out into the world, let it be just as important to us to put on Jesus Christ to abide in Him and walk with Him all through the day.
This cannot be done in a hasty or superficial manner. It takes time, quiet time in living fellowship with Jesus, to realize that we have put Him on. Take time to get dressed every morning as you put on Christ.