This is a monumental week for my family. Our first son is performing a benefit concert as his graduation project and we have been getting ready for that all week.
He, on the other hand, has been working toward this for a year and a half. He’s had numerous auditions at colleges this past year and he’s worked on much of this music for all of this time.
A very interesting thing happened this week, though. He performed in a new outfit. Usually when he performs, he wears nice clothing - at minimum, a dress shirt and dress pants. Recently he’s taken his outfit up to at least a shirt and tie, if not his full suit. This week, though, he pulled out the tuxedo that we purchased for college and he practiced his entire performance in his tuxedo.
The difference in my perspective of him really surprised me. Sure, he’s a young man, graduating high school early, entering college a good 2 years before most of his peers.
But when he put on the tuxedo, I immediately viewed him as a professional musician beginning his career. I found myself anticipating his music to be at a level greater than what I’d heard before.
And I was not disappointed!
That led me to consider myself in the spiritual realm. When I wake up in the morning and just throw on some clothes and jump into my day, then the devil isn’t going to expect much of me. He knows I’ve put no time into my day, no effort into preparing for any battle that might come.
But when I wake up, spend time in prayer over the day to come, I think the devil views me in a different way. I think he knows I’m getting ready for spiritual battle. I think he views me as more of a “professional” in terms of my plans to make it through the day. And he expects my “A game” because he knows I have prepared.
So while I haven’t chosen a feature from those who have linked up this week, please know that I’ve prayed for each of you who join us here. I appreciate that you are here each week and that you continue to bring strong, godly content to our linkup. And I’ll be back with a featured post next week, after this project is fully complete. Thank you for grace!
Now it’s time to linkup.
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