put on the right stuff

Very simple idea. Each day we make choices of what to put on. This might be about what we wear. Of coarse, I check the weather as to what I will wear. I also check my calendar.

But there are other things that we have to choose to put on. There are also things that we have to choose to take off. Important choices are all around us.

Put on the clothes, the attitudes and the things that will make you a stronger person. Take off the things that will make you lose or make life go the wrong direction.

These are big things. But it really is a very simple idea.

Romans 13:12 NLT

The night is almost gone; the day of salvation will soon be here. So remove your dark deeds like dirty clothes, and put on the shining armor of right living.

Put on right living. Define it for yourself. Make sure light and making others better is included in your definition of right living.

Ephesians 4:24 NLT

Put on your new nature, created to be like God—truly righteous and holy.

Put on the new. Take off the old. God makes us new and righteous.

Colossians 3:14 NASB

Beyond all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity.

Put on love. This is the genuine and unconditional love that makes us so much better. This stuff brings unity.

It is really that simple. Put on the right stuff.

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