Fashion designers love to update old styles to new and improved versions. Today’s thin-rimmed spectacles become tomorrow’s horn-rimmed peepers. Epaulets today are the shoulder pads of the future. Whether white socks or black socks is a designer’s whim.
Cuffs on trousers are a finishing touch on many dressy suits. They nicely trim the bottoms of our pants, draping perfectly over the tops of our shoes.
They are also the first to get dirty if we walk down a muddy and unkempt street. We need to be careful of our cuffs when we walk outside the holy will of God.
Titus 1:7-9 tells us:
“For a [leader of the church] must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; but a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate; holding fast the faithful word as he has been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince [those who would deny the cross].”
This is a sea change from what’s expected of the average church member. The pastor, elder, and song leader must stand a cut above those whom they lead. Their footsteps must be presented carefully so as to maintain their purity of character. As a steward of God, our leaders are to be totally consecrated to the Lord. He mustn’t show contention or be money hungry. She must exercise self-control in all things. He must withstand opposition to the world and never, never compromise the truths taught in the Word of God.
Who can live such a life? No one without the salvation of Jesus and the infilling of the Holy Spirit. Only when we walk in the footsteps of Jesus our Lord will our cuffs remain clean and our example before the body of Christ be pure and unsullied by the insatiable and impervious dirt of the world.
Fashion designers update their styles every year. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. When we walk hand in hand with him, our garments will remain forever clean.
Jesus knows our every footstep, and he will guide the placement of each one.
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