*🙏The Word Daily Devotion 🙏*
(Global Evangelical Church)
*📖NEW CLOTHING FROM GOD*
👉(Reading: Colossians 3:5-14)
🗓Tuesday, July 28
📜Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience *Colossians 3:12 (NIV)*
📋We all like to have new clothes to replace old ones. Whenever we are blessed with new clothes, we wear them with excitement. Children, especially, will show off their new clothes to their friends whenever they receive them from their parents. Even some adults show off their new clothes by coming to Church late—they walk gorgeously to the front so that everybody will know that they have got a new cloth. There is however a new clothing from heaven which Jesus wants us Christians to wear. This clothing is always new, it never gets old—it is the clothing of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. These are Christian virtues which God wants every Christian to exhibit. Compassion and kindness are bedfellows; they go hand in hand. One cannot be kind without being compassionate. Compassion and kindness are the nature of God which attracts even the wicked. Humility and gentleness are interwoven; the humble are always gentle. The gentle, are not violent; they are patient, willing to accommodate even the violent. Since the cloth we wear cannot be hidden, we must also show these divine virtues openly as we live our Christian lives. What virtue are you clothed with? Are you compassionate, kind, humble, gentle and patient?
_*🛐Meditation And Prayer:*_ Lord, may your clothing of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience envelope me so all can see it and glorify your name!
_*📚Further Reading:*_ Philippians 2:1-10
_*🔑Key Lesson:*_ We showcase God most when we are seen in his divine clothes (virtues).
_*◼The Bible in one year:* _ Isaiah 50-52
