Wear the Garment God Gave You

It will change your personality, your priorities, and your prayer.

Spiritual writers sometimes speak of being baptized as being clothed with “the garment of salvation” (see Isaiah 61:10). In baptism we are truly made into a new creation and given everything we need to live a holy and perfect life.

But this new life in Christ comes to us as just a seed— brimming with potential, but needing to be planted in the soil of faith and nurtured through prayer, sacraments, and obedience. To use another image, we are given the garment of salvation, but it is still up to us to put on that garment day after day.

At the most basic level, this garment of salvation, is our way to heaven. But if we want to please Jesus—and if we want to experience everything our baptism is meant to give us, simply admiring our new clothing or thinking good thoughts about our baptism will not be enough. We need to give the Holy Spirit the freedom to transform us as we continue to put off the old life and put on the new.

Confess and…