What am I going to wear?
That’s something some of us think deeply about, and others hardly think about at all.
But think about the last time you stood in front of your closet trying to decide what to wear, probably earlier today.
What was really going through your mind in that moment?
Some clothes reveal.
Some clothes protect.
Some clothes fit the season.
Some clothes say comfort.
Some say confidence.
Some say I belong here.
And some quietly say, I hope I do.
Nonetheless, what we choose to wear has a way of revealing what we believe about our identity, our access, and whether we think we’re welcome in the room.
And that’s not just true physically, but spiritually, too, as we saw depicted in Genesis 27, where we see a family doing the same thing, just with far more at stake.
Isaac wears blindness and appetite, favoring Esau for what he provides.
Rebekah wears fear and control, favoring Jacob for what she hopes to secure.
Jacob literally puts on another man’s clothes, hoping to receive a blessing he doesn’t trust God to give honestly.
Esau comes in later, stripped of what he thought defined him, crying out for what he believes he lost.
And what no one addressed for decades, favoritism and deception, finally spills into the open.
Many of us may choose solids, stripes, or a combination of both, but we all wear a pattern when it comes to how we live our lives and how we love (or don’t).
It is this very thing—patterns left unchecked—that Genesis highlights for all to see, not just about their family, but ours too.
It’s about good intentions dressed up as control. It’s about knowing God’s promise but distrusting His process. And it reminds us of a freeing truth we all need to hear again:
Clothing ourselves in God’s blessing cannot be secured by deceit or lost by human failure.
That means we can stop grasping, pretending, and wearing identities God never asked us to put on.
God steps into families like Isaac’s, and like ours, not because we’ve figured it out, but because He is faithful even when we are not.
In our last prayer call of this year, let’s lay before God things of the heart that God intended that we wear and don’t fit us well.
We’ll ask Him to show us where favoritism, fear, control, or old habits have shaped our lives and loves.
We’ll confess where we’ve tried to manage outcomes only God can handle.
And, most of all, we’ll thank and praise Him for Jesus, the Son who didn’t deceive to get a blessing, but clothed himself in humility to remove and wear the sin that once clothed us to the point of death.
So tonight at 7 pm, you’re invited to come lay down the clothes of deception, control, fear, and sin, and be clothed instead in Jesus’ grace, truth, and freedom, so our lives and our families can tell a better story to a watching world.
Blessings,
Pastor Alvin and Mallary Brown
alvin@makingamosaic.com :: mallary@makingamosaic.com
P.S. Is there something specific you need prayer for this week? Just reply—we’d be honored to stand with you.
General Prayer Requests & Updates
For evangelism to flourish so communities and campuses in the greater Fort Worth area will be reached, and the lost will see and experience the love of Christ and be drawn to his kingdom.
For signs and wonders to follow the preaching of His Word.
For team unity and laborers to help carry the load.
For finances and provisions.
For fully funded campus missionaries (2 per campus) to help reach the next generation — Texas Christian University (TCU), Tarrant County College (TCC), Texas Wesleyan University (TWU) and Tarleton State University – Fort Worth (TSU), University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), and Dallas Baptist University (DBU).
Alvin Brown, the Lead Pastor of Mosaic Church Fort Worth, brings over a decade of pastoral ministry experience and more than 20 years of operational and technical leadership expertise. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Telecommunications Management from DeVry University and an MBA from Keller Graduate School of Management. He enjoys spending quality time with his wife, Mallary, and their three children and contributing as a writer to various media outlets.
