Reason #1: What you wear reveals your aim in life. 2 Cor. 5:9 says “whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him.” Verses 1-4 depict aiming to please God as longing to be clothed by him, telling us we know we have an eternal home and until our earthly “tent” is destroyed, we will long for our “heavenly dwelling”. But we also long to “be further clothed” by Him here and now to not be found “unclothed” in eternity.

Verse 5 tells us God prepares us to be clothed for such a place, and for Him. And he gives us “the Spirit as a guarantee” who clothes us with love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. (Gal. 5:22-23) Being so clothed reveals our aim to please Him.

Reason #2: What you wear reveals your will in life. Our longing to be further clothed is met by a Spirit in us willing to change us. But we must also be willing to be changed, to set the dial of our mind to yield the right of way to His rule rather than setting it on living our way, clothing ourselves to fit-in comfortably, here.

Our life exists beyond here. If our aim is to be prepared for more than here, we will yield to the Spirit in us, rather than to the way of the world around us. Indeed, verse 4 states “what is mortal” will wonderfully be “swallowed up by life”. And on that day, we will stand before him in our heavenly home. Hallelujah! Being clothed in the Spirit reveals our will to be ruled by the Spirit.

Reason #3: What you wear regulates your reward in eternity. When we stand before Him, how glorious it will be to be clothed for Heaven! Though for many years, such clothing was costly and hard won, this day the battle ends and you will receive what is due. 2 Corinthians 5:10: “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.”

Your clothing regulates your reward. What we wear matters. Are you aiming to be clothed for today, or for eternity?