Welcome back for some further fashion advice!
Wear the right size clothes
(they are the ones that fit you now)
1 Kings 19:18-22 (NIV)
So Elijah went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen, and he himself was driving the twelfth pair. Elijah went up to him and threw his cloak around him. Elisha then left his oxen and ran after Elijah. "Let me kiss my father and mother good-by," he said, "and then I will come with you." "Go back," Elijah replied. "What have I done to you?" So Elisha left him and went back. He took his yoke of oxen and slaughtered them. He burned the plowing equipment to cook the meat and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he set out to follow Elijah and became his attendant.
Here we have another garment-related account: this is the account of when the prophet Elijah hands over the mantle (spiritual authority) that was on his life to a young, up-and-coming prophet called Elisha. Elisha is busy working in the field with a heart full of desire to be a prophet for God, then seemingly without warning the prophet Elijah comes to him and throws his garment (mantle) around him and says, "It's time for you to wear this now". We then see him struggle slightly with the hold of his past before boldly stepping into his future, burning everything that could make him go back.
He had a choice concerning what he would wear: he could have shrugged the garment off and said, "Its far to big for me, I wear stuff that is a lot smaller." Rather, he chose to make the bigger thing, that God was calling him to, his new size. You know, it did not take him long to grow into it, either. God called him to wear bigger things, he responded and his life grew.
I believe that God is constantly wanting to grow us to a new size and, as we dare to dress in the larger clothes he offers, we will keep moving into the bigger things God has ordained for us. Your life should be constantly outgrowing things as you daily walk with God. Like a snake shedding its skin each year, so we should be shedding skin on a regular basis, testifying that our lives are getting bigger and constantly outgrowing what once fitted us (contained us). Champion, dress for where God is leading you. Don't be afraid to put on that bigger responsibility when it is offered to you, like Elisha; wear the clothes that fit your future, not your past. I see young people today wearing skinny jeans – I don't get them? Maybe I am jealous because I cant get any to fit me? But I know in God I do not want to wear skinny anything, I want to always have the right size on, and the right size is that you have room to grow.
Go through your 'life wardrobe' and throw out the small stuff you don't fit into anymore.
Andy
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