Clothed

“This gospel unveils a continual revelation of God’s righteousness—a perfect righteousness given to us when we believe. And it moves us from receiving life through faith, to the power of living by faith. This is what the Scripture means when it says: “We are right with God through life-giving faith!” Romans‬ ‭1‬:‭17‬ ‭TPT‬‬

We all crave righteousness, we either manufacture our own or walk in faith in what Jesus did for us on the cross. It is so easy to stoop to manufacture, as our old sin nature would love this; it enables sin to stay alive in our lives.

Accepting death to sin and the sin nature requires faith in Jesus and a willingness to yield our lusts and greed to the cross. We have so entrenched our lusts around food and drink we are reluctant to part with them. We boast about our love and addiction to coffee, to various foods, this further entrenches them. We boast about our addictions to shoes and handbags, clothes. Our houses bulge with the accumulation of our greed. One bad storm or fire and they are all gone. Then we sit in the ashes and weep.

Lusts and greed prevent us from seeing and doing what the Lord had planned. His ways are better than ours. When we stand before the Lord we will appear naked, knowing that we have clothed ourselves in less that the blood of Jesus. That garment is the only one that will suffice.

“We are convinced that even if these bodies we live in are folded up at death like tents, we will still have a God-built home that no human hands have built, which will last forever in the heavenly realm.”

‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭5‬:‭1‬ ‭TPT‬‬

May we come back to Him in repentance and choose faith in Him and His commission as all we need. Amen!