because of Christ in you and because Christ is in you therefore as God’s chosen people holy and dearly loved clothe yourselves with so now this is what we need to do every single day put on your new clothes that represent who you are this new creation spiritually and emotionally mature therefore as God’s chosen people holding your love clothe yourselves with compassion kindness humility gentleness and patience bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone forgive as the
Lord forgave you and over all these virtues put on love which binds them all together in perfect Unity so we were talking a little bit Joel and then the very next verse and Let the Peace of Christ rule in your hearts and if you want to know what the payoff of emotional and spiritual maturity is it’s peace immaturity is going to lead you to the opposite yes of Peace lying slandering practicing all kinds of idolatry or you know making other things more important than God and even sexual immorality that is not going to lead you to the peace
that will Comfort your heart but it will lead to A disruption a destruction really of all the that’s good within you so we want peace and the way we can let the Peace of Christ tries to rule in our hearts is by putting on these new clothes if you think about it think about when you go and buy clothes okay so if you’re telling to put like clothe yourself with all of this when you go by clothes what’s important let’s just throw out a couple of things what’s important you want to buy clothes that what fit yeah you want to buy
clothes that fit that you like yeah and so it’s okay for some of the different ways the different personality types the different wirings of people it’s okay if your compassion may look a little different than my compassion Jim you’re uniquely wired with Incredible compassion and you’re a therapist so your Garment of compassion is probably going to look a little bit different than somebody else who has a different kind of career right so it’s okay for your clothing to you need to put it on as it fits you but don’t disqualify yourself like oh
