\nDress for\u00a0your<\/em> calling<\/em><\/strong>: stop trying to wear the clothes of someone else’s calling. Learn to dress yourself in the honor and strength fitting for\u00a0the\u00a0tasks that God has given you. Wearing the wrong fit or style for what you were created for is unflattering, uncomfortable, and uninspired.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
UNFLATTERING.\u00a0<\/strong>Trying to live a life outside of what God created you<\/em> for is unflattering. We were created to bring God glory\u00a0as ourselves<\/em>. The problem is that being ourselves is so easy, being what God created us to be is so natural – that it hardly seems glamourous enough to be a real calling, or a real, fulfilling purpose. But, God created\u00a0you<\/em> to bring Him glory by being you<\/em>.<\/p>\n
UNCOMFORTABLE.\u00a0<\/strong>Dressing as someone else every day is uncomfortable. There will always be something: a nagging, itching, something<\/em> in your heart that says,\u00a0“No, no, this isn’t quite right.”\u00a0<\/em>I love mountain biking. I have a certain way I dress when I mountain bike, mostly in Lycra. It fits the occasion, it fits the purpose of my activity that day. It’s the most comfortable way to dress when mountain biking. However, head-to-toe Lycra is hardly fitting, or comfortable, for a day at the office. . . unless you are a professional mountain biker (which I, sadly, am not).<\/p>\n
Many of us are trying so hard to be something we are not. We are walking around in clothes that we wish were for us, or for this season, looking silly in the process. The only thing that is the same for all of us is our calling\u00a0to put off our old nature, and put on Christ. What that looks like<\/em>, <\/em>and\u00a0how He operates<\/em> in and through you is completely\u00a0unique, and unprecedented. Your display of Christ may be most beautiful as you lead others in worship. Perhaps it is through a season of raising kids or building a career that you put on Christ<\/em>. Whatever the calling, or season of that calling you are in be confident in your position, role and purpose today – and ‘dress appropriately’.<\/p>\n
UNINSPIRED.<\/strong>\u00a0It isn’t hard to copy someone else. Imitation brings\u00a0our desires\u00a0far outside of what God desires for us. It is easy to put on someone else’s attitudes, beliefs, purposes, passion, or dreams. But borrowed dreams must be returned. It’s only the dreams, purposes, and passions that we take the time to plant\u00a0and cultivate in our lives that will produce fruit. And that is a difficult process. We have to go get our own faith, our own hope, and keep our own passion stirred up. Borrowed clothes must\u00a0be returned. But to maintain your own wardrobe, you’ll need to do the laundry and get out the iron. You’ll need to find, and maintain your own inspiration to live out the purposes God has for\u00a0you<\/em> on\u00a0this day<\/em>.<\/p>\n
IT’S TIME TO EMBRACE & INCREASE YOUR CAPACITY<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n[2] Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes. [3] For you will spread out to the right and to the left; your descendants will dispossess nations and settle in their desolate cities. Isaiah 54:2-3<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
As I imagine squeezing into a\u00a0purpose<\/em>\u00a0that is\u00a04-sizes too small these verses come to mind. God wants you to prepare for a larger vision and wider embrace of influence. To experience this increase, we must make room for it. The first step is to immediately discontinue trying to fit into someone else’s purpose. Then it is time to get to work. My husband and I had a family, and business meeting not too long ago. Our biggest goal walking away from that pow-wow was to begin\u00a0intentionally making space for our future hopes, dreams, and desires. We’ve got the ‘work hard’ part of life mastered. We are now focussing\u00a0on stretching out the curtains<\/em> of our time, finances, and relationships. Making room for more opportunities, ideas, and dreams within our every day, and our someday.<\/p>\n
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