You arrive at school, and for some reason everyone’s looking at you. Not in the adoring “wow, the coolest kid at school has just arrived” kinda way, but more in a shocked disbelief which rapidly turns into bursts of giggles. Sniggers in some cases. You look around you to see if there’s someone else who’s quite possibly the figure of all this attention, but the people behind you are looking at you too. It’s definitely YOU they’re laughing at. But why!??! You suddenly realize that you can feel the wind all over your body, and when you look down, you realize it’s your worst nightmare come true!!! You’ve forgotten to put on your clothes!!
Ever had that dream? Those who have have assured me that it's the biggest relief to wake up and realize it's just been a dream! To be fair, this isn’t everyone’s worst nightmare#, but it links pretty high up there on many people's "I hope this NEVER happens to me" lists!! If that’s the case, why do so many of us to clothe ourselves?
As Christians we’re told to clothe ourselves with our Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 13:14) and compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience (Colossians 3:12) amongst others, but so often we neglect to! How awkward to think how often we're being laughed at in the spiritual realm!*
# In fact, my worst nightmare was having Godzilla come tear up my town because we were keeping her babies in a lab.. But hopefully this’ll never be one that comes true either!
*I doubt that we really are… But for the purposes of my analogy, pretend it is! :)
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment