Do you remember watching this cartoon as a kid? Yeah... me too. How Merlin the Magician changed Bugs into a pig.. and Bugs simply unzips the pig layer and he is back to his normal self. We are no different.
I was thinking this morning how I don't react the same way to certain situations like I used to. Things that would get to me and then I would stew for days... now... I might not even notice. Or... I might notice and then realize.. nope.. I am not going to go there. I'm changed!
Well, that is a lot like this cartoon. Throughout our lives... we have put on certain costumes, I think mainly because of hurts, rejections.. etc. When we put those costumes on... they were meant to protect us... so that people could not see who we really were.
Well, the Father is calling us to take off those costumes and become genuine. Those suits are hot, toilsome, stinky.... they make it difficult to breathe and enjoy our lives.
One thing I noticed that I would do... is hold my hands on that zipper so tight!!! I didn't want that protection to come off. But finally, I would give in.. I would unzip it and let it fall to the ground... but then... (SMH) I would just stand there and look at it on the ground. I would try to remember when I put that suit on.. and who's fault it was... and how... I really liked that suit... and you know..... that suit really did come in handy.... maybe I'll keep this one around........
Another thing that would happen was..... I would unzip one costume and the one underneath looked JUST LIKE THE OLD THE ONE I TOOK OFF!!!! So, then I would just give up and say... I'm doomed. I'll never get all these suits off..... or... what if I finally got them off and........ I'M A TURD!
Well, now... I am finally getting it.. I need to let the suits drop... step out of them... and then swiftly walk away....
Let's change saints... Let those old clothes drop off, walk away, don't look back, and enjoy our new life that is renewed daily in Christ!
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
2 Corinthians 5:17
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us Hebrews 12:1
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before. Philippians 3:13
