Have your suit on sir? Ma’am, do your have your dress just right and the make up just so?
Have your suit on sir? Ma’am, do your have your dress just right and the make up just so? Let me tell you a story and at the end I doubt I will need to explain the questions.
A man walked into a job interview looking nice and handsome. Suit jacket, dress shirt, dress pants and shiny shoes. For the type of job he was applying for, in the location he was to work should he get the job, he was just right. He got the job for the most part, between you and me, because of how he looked. He looked and acted just as he should to fit the description. The man left the interview with the job and proceeded to walk down an alley two blocks away, turned right and went into a doorway. Why you might ask. Well he was in a doorway to us but a bathroom to him. He took off the jacket to reveal and dress shirt that had rips in it from the shoulders down to the dirty cuffs that the jacket hid. The shoes came off next to reveal socks that had a hole in the sole. Never mind what was not on under the pants. The nice clothes he had were bought with money from panhandling. But that’s not the point. The point is, we show up at church the same way. We show up at work this way. We show up in life this way. We look fine, we smell fine, we act fine but underneath we have holes in the souls. We have at some point placed so much importance on our outward appearance that we have allowed our insides to suffer. I’m not saying that we are all falling apart but I know for sure that there are those out there reading this that have seen a string or two coming loose. Our spiritual clothing, our walk with our God must take priority. Ignoring the spiritual side of our lives is a lot more dangerous than not having the latest style of clothing. When ignored, it will leave holes in your character, your integrity and peace. It will come out in your physical life and no amount of money spent can buy a suit nice enough to cover it. You can’t avoid a smell without bathing and you can’t help but thirst when you are not going to the well. I wonder how much money each year is spent on expensive Bibles that are rarely if ever opened at home and how many expensive jackets are covering broken hearts. We must strive to get real with ourselves, clean out the closet and appear before our Father the way He knows us best. Just as we are. For the spirit there is no Goodwill…but given the chance to renew you and make the holes holy…God will.
- Matt Daryl