Cleaning Out Closets | Brenda Yoder

I need to spend some time cleaning out my closet.

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*Getting rid of clothes that don't fit.*
* **Pulling out clothes I have no business wearing any more,*
* **Making room for fortysomething clothes that are much more comfortable and appropriate*
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The process is spiritually important, too.

Like those things in our nature
or past we hold onto,
that don't fit us anymore.
* What behaviors, habits, things of our old nature*
* have we grown out of for our benefit?*
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Just like those old pair of jeans I love,
but when I put them on,
don't flatter me anymore
A*re there behaviors we "put on" *
*that don't flatter us *
*as believers seeking to reflect God?*
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Just like that skirt I absolutely LOVE,
but I realize, at my age and stage,
it's not appropriate?

A*re there behaviors, habits, or gray areas *
*we engage in that are not appropriate*
* for one representing Christ?*
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As I grow older, I hope I'm wise enough to know what is beneficial to hold onto, what I should get rid of, and what is beneficial to put on as new, because it reflects *Jesus* better.

*New garments consisting of praise,*
* a new nature, and robes of righteous. *
* All cost nothing to us, but are everything to Him.*
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*And in these, we are rich.*
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**"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation: the old is gone, the new has come!" 2 Corinthians 5:17**
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