Dressed to be like Christ

Colossians 3:12 "Put on therefore,as the elect of God,holy and beloved,bowels of mercies,kndness, humbleness of mind,meekness,longsuffering";

Once we accept Christ we have  a new life.As seen in the previous passage(read 1-14), the believer is to strip off the clothing of his old life,for they are unbecoming to his new life.Now, there are some clothes that the believer is to put on,clothes that will dress him to be like Christ.

The clothing of the elect; As believers we are the "elect of God".We are those God has chosen  to be His holy and beloved people.We were elected to be holy,to be separated, set apart for God's will.God called us out of the world and away from the old life it offered, the life of sin and death,in to a life of righteousness and eternity,so we must change clothes.We are elected to be the beloved of God,to turn away from a life of hatred of God,the old life that rejected, rebelled,ignored, denied,and was constantly cursing in the face of God.We have been called to recieve the love of God,Jesus Christ.The point is this the elect and beloved of God are those who really trust and believe Jesus Christ is their savior.It is these who live in a newness of life and have taken off the ways of the old man and have put on the clothes of the new life.

They have dressed in the clothes of Jesus Christ,taking of the ways of the old man.Putting on mercy, humility, meekness, kindness, forbearance, longsuffering and love.We must remember it is not enough just to take off the ways of the old man,we must now put on the clothes of the new man and thus walk in a newness of life, dressed to be like Christ.