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I never thought about the spiritual aspects of giving my kids a bath or standing in a line at a grocery store. However, God has recently showed me some insightful biblical truths in some of the most mundane tasks in life. Whether I am driving, showering or sleeping each of these activities has a biblical truth tucked inside of it. In the forest of life, God’s biblical truth is inside each one of these trees. My hope is that others view the ordinary aspects of life through a spiritual lens and see what God teaches you.







Sunday, October 7, 2012

Autumn Attire

Cooler weather, leaves changing, pumpkin recipes are some of the things I love about fall season. Another one of my favorite things about fall weather is the clothes I get to wear. Boots, scarfs, sweaters, light jackets are clothes that one  doesn’t  get to wear much living in Texas, but when the temperature remotely drops I quickly pull out those clothes and take advantage of it. I have to admit, I get excited about wearing clothes that I haven’t seen in 9 months. It is like I went on a shopping spree except I didn’t spend any money!

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As I began to try on my fall clothes that were pushed at the back of my closet, I thought about the scripture in Colossians 3:12 which states “Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.”  I have to say I felt convicted. God wants me to clothe my spirit and I am interested clothing the flesh.  It made me wonder how many of us run around with a naked spirit. We would never leave the house undressed (or at least I hope not) but I feel that we walk out the door without clothing ourselves in compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
  My daughter is at the stage now that she gets dressed on her own. It is great! One day, I asked her to go and get dress with the clothes I’ve laid out because we needed to run to the store.  She quickly got dressed and off we went.  While we were at the store, I noticed her pants were falling and a tiny piece of skin crept out from the back. I walked over to her and said in a soft, gentle whisper a question I thought I would never say, Sweetheart, where is your underwear? Her response was priceless. “Oh no, I forgot!  I thought something didn’t feel right!”
How you forget to put on underwear is beside me.  Nevertheless, I wish something didn’t feel right when I didn’t clothe myself with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. God wants me to put these virtues on daily. It is not natural and certainly not easy but with God all things are possible. God’s Word says to “clothe yourselves.” These are powerful words for a girl who loves fashion.  Without these things, our soul should feel like your wrist feels when you are not wearing a watch or how your ring finger feels when you are not wearing your wedding ring. As beautiful as I think autumn attire is, God has called us to dress our souls with something much more elegant, much more profound and much more humbling.
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