Change Your Clothes

Revelation 19:7-8

Let us rejoice and exult
and give him the glory,
for the marriage of the Lamb has come,
and his Bride has made herself ready;
it was granted her to clothe herself
with fine linen, bright and pure”—

We are to bring God glory through our life. From our actions to our words to our thoughts, it all should bring Him glory. Though this task is impossible because we will fail, we will sin, we will love our fleshly desires, we have to strive to bring Him as much glory as possible. Not out of a requirement, but from desire. As we walk with Him, we become more like Him and fall more in love with Him. As this happens, we desire to please Him more and more. From this desire comes our passion and calling to bring Him glory. But, this cannot become confused with trying to earn salvation. It is a very fine line between serving God out of love and serving God to earn salvation as compensation. 

The last half of this verse stimulated my thoughts the most. “and his Bride has made herself ready; it was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure”— Family, have we made ourselves ready for His return? If we truly know God, He gives us new, clean clothes instead of the heinous, torn up, shattered, and repugnant clothes that were our past, our sins, our rebellious acts of hatred towards God, our acts of self gratification and self exaltation. Have we put these new clothes on though? Have we put purity as our clothing? Have we grown closer to our King and Lover? Have we removed our old desires, old way of thought, old actions, etc and replaced it with God and His calling on our life? However, it is NECESSARY to take off the old

I pray that we take off the old and put on the new.

-Ryan