The Everyday Suit

“Godliness is not a holiday suit, but apparel that is for const am lueary This illustrates a very important truth. Some people seem to fancy that they can put their religion on and off as they do their Sunday clothes. Such religion is better put off once for all. He who is not godly every day is not godly any day. We should aim at serving God with all our hearts on the Sabbath, in songs, and prayers, and sermons; but if these are to be acceptable, we must also serve God on all the week-days in an Jlonest, upright, holy conversation. True Christians will endeavour to make their houses temples, their meals sacraments, their garments vestments, and all their days holy-days. That profession which is merely on the surface, like the gilt upon the gingerbread at a country fair, is too poor a thing to enter heaven.

Lord, make me to wear thy righteousness within me, and then I cannot leave it off. Make me like the king’s daughter, “all glorious within.” Weave thy grace into the warp and weft of my being. Even on earth let me ever be with the Lord.