“Since God chose you to be the holy people he loves, you must clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.”
Something I love doing is breaking down a scripture and really understanding what the words mean. When God speaks to us what is He really say to us.
Holy- dedicated or consecrated to God or a religious purpose; sacred.
Tenderhearted- easily moved to love, pity, or sorrow.
Mercy- compassion or forgiveness shown toward someone whom it is within one's power to punish or harm.
Kindness- the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate.
Humility- a modest or low view of one's own importance; humbleness.
Gentleness- the quality of being kind, tender, or mild-mannered.
Patience- the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset.
God has called us to be all of these things and more. Just as we put on cloths every day He wants us to put these traits on ourselves. It can be messy sometimes because we are human, but He wants us to continue to clothe ourselves with them. He never said it would be easy. When I think about the word “to clothe” oneself it makes me think of me personally. I have always looked at this verse and thought it meant that I put on these traits so that I can offer these things to other people. But what if I was missing a piece. What if God wants us to clothe ourselves with these traits so that we can demonstrate it to ourselves in order for us to offer it to anyone else? Just like we have to love ourselves before we can allow someone to really love us. Every day you have to clothe yourself with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience because you are just as much human as any other person. God wants this for you as much as He want this for someone else. So, I challenge myself and you today. Show yourself some love and have patience. Remember that you are not perfect and no one expects you to be. God chose you and calls you His holy people. He didn’t mess up when He said that. He didn’t say everyone is holy except you. No, he said YOU are my holy people whom I love! So, embrace that today and clothe yourself!
Lord God you are such a faithful father! I thank you for today and for your mercies that are new every morning. I thank you that you have never given up on me. That you always chase after my heart and that you know me better than anyone else. I thank you that you continuedly show yourself through the little things in my life and that I can always count on you to have my back. God, I ask that you would go before me, behind me and beside me and to be a light unto my path. I pray God that your peace would overflow in my life and in the lives of those around me. I pray that no matter the troubles that may come my way or the feelings I may face that you would continue to get the glory and praise. No matter what I go through or feel, whether it be good or bad I will Face Everything And Rejoice and leave False Expectations About Reality behind. Today and every day, God gets the Glory no matter what! In your Holy and Precious name, Amen!
Blessings Abundantly,
Taylor
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