The Christian Wears Christ

In a world of distractions it is easy for a Christian to forget to ‘put on Christ’ as Romans 13:14 says. To put on Christ means to live, breathe, and act as ambassadors of our Lord and Savior in this world. As we go about our business, we are called to remember that we are here to forge a righteous path, an honest, blameless method of living, so that everyone we interact with might see and learn and know Christ, or at least what it means for a soul to try and serve Him. To put on Christ is to make no provision for the flesh. The focus of our lives should not, therefore, be the accumulation of earthly treasures, the indulgence of fleshly desires (money, sex, popularity), but the service of our God: ‘to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself untainted from the world’ (James 1:27).
We are called to put our service to Him above all else. As the apostle Paul put it in Phil 1:21, ‘For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.’ Reflect for a moment on that statement. What love for our Savior, must Paul have had to devote himself—heart and soul—to the service of Christ? He knew what mattered in this world. He understood his calling. He understood that the purpose-driven life is not compelled to gather riches or to attend the most church seminars, or to feel great about your awesome self, but to humbly serve the One who saved us from ourselves. And he lived out this sort of life by ‘putting on Christ’.
We are so busy these days that we often forget what it is we should be doing, that the purpose of a Christian is to share the love of Christ, to promote the gospel of peace, to realize—and act on this realization—that the people we encounter each day are in desperate need of the Savior we are privileged to know, and called to share. So as you go about your business today, don’t forget to put on Christ.
God bless!