It's All In The Application

Happy Monday, my friends! I hope you were all able to join with others in corporate worship yesterday. There is nothing that compares to spending time with God during the week, and then joining with other believers for corporate worship on Sunday. When I worship with people who have brought the experiences they have had with God that week with them on Sunday, the worship service is like a party in my spirit! I love it. I pray the same for you.



Speaking of church services on Sunday, every week your pastor(s) work very hard to provide you with tools to use for this journey, but what good are tools if we never use them?


Not much.


I know we’re all girls here, but let’s imagine for a minute our husbands having a toolbox full of tools that never get used. He just hauls it around in his truck just to be hauling it.  Seems silly, doesn’t it?


Let’s get a little more girly with this idea - same goes with our makeup. We have all of these cool things that we can use to make us more beautiful. We have foundation, powder, there’s blush, eye shadow, eye liner and mascara, there’s lip stick, moisturizers, etc - all of these things are intended to make us more beautiful.


But – they won’t make us more beautiful if they are still in the package, will they?


What woman in her right mind would take a makeup bag everywhere she went – to work, to the grocery store, out with a friend, to church, to the mall, to family gatherings, but never make the effort to take the makeup out of the cosmetic bag and actually put it on? Wouldn’t that be a waste of energy? Just one more thing to keep up with, I say. I do well to arrive at my intended destination with my person intact and purse on my shoulder, much less pack another bag around just for the heck of it.


I can tell you right now, if I busted up into my workplace tomorrow just packing my makeup bag without putting a stitch of the bag's contents on my face, my co-workers would look at me like I was retarded.


Wouldn’t they be right, though? Why would I carry these tools around that are supposed to make me more beautiful but never use them?


It’s all in the application.


Makeup only helps if it is APPLIED.


Not collected.


Not stored up waiting for the “perfect opportunity”.


Not packed around.


APPLIED.


Isn’t that what we do sometimes with the tools God gives us everyday? I know I am guilty of knowing I have the tool, guilty of being a “tool collector”, but never putting those tools to work.


Brings a certain verse to mind – Hmm - our Godsword (from memory):


His divine power has given us everything we need to live a godly life through our knowledge of Him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 2 Peter 1:3


This says we have been given all the tools we need - What tools have you been given lately that you can apply to your life to make you more beautiful for your Savior? Was it something your pastor said? Was it a scripture you ran across? Something you read in a book?   Maybe a new truth you just discovered...

Please, do share!




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