Forever in Blue Jeans

I’m not into fashion at all. So, I can’t really think in terms of having favorite things to wear. The only way that I can respond to today’s prompt is to speak in spiritual terms, and also reflect on some old pop hits. I’ll begin with the pop hits. It might even provoke me to think of what I like wearing. The following songs are ones that I Ioved to hate back in the 1970s. But now they bring me back to my youth 😀.

And I did love jeans. I still do. So, I suppose I could answer jeans and t-shirts. I used to like buying t-shirts featuring my favorite stars. I still have a few, including a Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon t-shirt that one of the kids gave me for Christmas a couple of years ago.

I’m not really into shoes. There’s lots of songs about shoes, but I’m just happy with shoes that don’t hurt.

Spiritual Clothing

It’s interesting how clothes say something about your status. When I was a teenager, I was keen to have cool clothes, but I couldn’t afford them, and my parents didn’t see it as a high priority. Now, I can afford them, but I don’t see it as a high priority 😀. Then, I think of uniforms, such as what police, doctors, nurses, firemen, judges and clergymen might wear. Regardless of the person in the uniform, you tend to think of them differently because they’re wearing the uniform. In the churches that I attended for most of my life (Baptist and independent evangelical) leaders don’t wear uniforms. But we all see ourselves as clothed in righteousness in spiritual terms.

That’s not to say that God isn’t aware of our faults and failings, but when we believe, our status changes. We cross over from death to life. And another metaphor, is clothing ourselves on a day-to-day basis, by putting on our new selves or putting on the full armor of God. That’s all part of our sanctification.

Here are some verses that use clothing as a metaphor:

Isa 61:10
I delight greatly in the Lord;
    my soul rejoices in my God.
For he has clothed me with garments of salvation
    and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness,
as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest,
    and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Galatians 3:27
For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

Eph 4:22-24
You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; ²³ to be made new in the attitude of your minds; ²⁴ and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

Colossians 3:12
Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.

Eph 6:11
Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. 

Rev 3:9
After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands.