Fashion

It is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose (Philippians 2:13).

A lot of people are fashion conscious.  They watch celebrities to see what they’re wearing.  They do their shopping at trendy boutiques.  They sneer at people who can’t afford to dress fashionably or wear outfits that aren’t flattering.

Fashion is about accentuating your best features and disguising everything else.  Fashion is about making a good impression when you’re at a meet and greet.  Fashion is about showcasing yourself to the world.

It is a major fashion blunder to pick an outfit that calls too much attention to itself.  At such times you don’t wear the outfit, the outfit wears you.  In the fashion world, you should never take a back seat to what you’re wearing.

When you get right down to it, fashion exists because we don’t like the way we look.  There are bulges and blemishes that need to be covering up or minimized.  Fashion exists to make the ordinary look extraordinary.

Fashion exists because of sin.  All of us are flawed inside and out; no one is perfect.  We have lost the impeccable beauty of God’s original design.  Thankfully, the LORD took action to rectify this problem.  He gave us His Son, who takes away our faults and blesses us with His beautiful righteousness. 

Christ lives in every believer’s heart.  He has the power to shape our lives into something lovely.  It’s as if we are the clothes that He wears.  Think of an old gardening glove.  Stained, ripped and worn, it is limp and unappealing.  But when the master gardener puts it on His hand, that old glove springs to life.  It finds itself planting beautiful flowers and tasty fruit; it is suddenly clearing away weeds to make the garden both attractive and productive. 

In the fashion world, the clothes should never wear you.  Sadly, no outfit can fully disguise your imperfections.  But when God wears you like a glove on His mighty hand, your deficiencies don’t matter—His shining glory becomes yours as well.