What Designer Clothing Are You Wearing, Sister?
My Lord has been stoking the refining fire in me again. For the past couple of weeks, I've been wrestling with spiritual warfare. Praying and confessing has been my consolation but it has been a raging fire. I kept thinking and praying and reading my Bible and I finally realized what I am experiencing is a peeling away of layers of angst-lined clothing that God does not want me wearing. But it seems that as a foolish, deceived child I am covering up the glory of the Lord by putting on the wrong DesignerWear over my robe of righteousness: Being Deceived Dress, Shame Shoes, Guilt Handbag, Unbelief Belt, and the most popular article of WorldlyWear, Pride Coat! I don't recall dressing myself this way but, hey, I also have a deceitful enemy who may have whispered that I should put it on because he convinced me that is who I am. Yep. Lies. Darkness. Spiritual warfare. It's been going on long enough that this clothing was beginning to smell like smoke! I knew God wouldn't s...