The Best Dressed Person

October 27, 2022
Midweek Study with Pastor Edith
1 John 2:1-8 and Matthew 22:37-38

I came across an old hymnal the other day and thought to myself; “I have enough hymnals, I don’t need to add another to my collection”, yet I was drawn to open it and was surprised that I was very familiar with the hymn-“All the way my Savior leads me” and I began to sing it which brought a smile to my face at a moment of fatigue and weariness. Isn’t it funny how something so simple can make you pause and think again about how blessed you are simply to know that the Lord is always with you?

Maybe you are in a season of doubt and wonder if God really does care about you and the world in which you live. Please allow me to share with you a note of encouragement. Jesus walked this earth during very troubled times. It must have been very discouraging for believers to even imagine that God was leading them, when all around they could see only trouble and despair. But that’s the beauty of the Gospel. Jesus came to seek and to save that which was lost not at an easy time but in the most difficult time. He came to teach us all how to get dressed in His righteousness alone, not in our own self-righteousness. When you and I get dressed, it probably means we are either going somewhere, or about to do something. Well, get dressed, because you are about to go somewhere and do something for the kingdom of God.

We read in 1 John 2:8; “Yet, I am writing you a new command; its truth is seen in him and you, because the darkness is passing and the true light is already shining”.

I believe that the true light shines through people like you and me when we choose to follow Christ and do as He requires; “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind…Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and Prophets hang on these two commandments” (Matthew 22:37-38).

I pray today you may be inspired to walk in the light of God’s Word and maybe you might want to sing this verse of another hymn I found today; “When He shall come with trumpet sound, O may I then in Him be found; dressed in His righteousness alone, faultless to stand before the throne. On Christ the solid rock I stand, all other ground is sinking sand, all other ground is sinking sand”.

Let’s get dressed!

AMEN