Playing Dress Up…
1 Samuel 17:38-40 (Amplified Bible)
38Then Saul clothed David with his armor; he put a bronze helmet on his head and clothed him with a coat of mail. 39And David girded his sword over his armor. Then he tried to go, but could not, for he was not used to it. And David said to Saul, I cannot go with these, for I am not used to them. And David took them off. 40Then he took his staff in his hand and chose five smooth stones out of the brook and put them in his shepherd's [lunch] bag [a whole kid's skin slung from his shoulder], in his pouch, and his sling was in his hand, and he drew near the Philistine.
My brother and I were getting in our morning exercise and we began to talk about some events that were unfolding around us and my brother who is quietly spiritual made a grand observation about someone he had been watching go through a particular process, he said it was like they were playing dress up, like the spirituality that they portrayed was not really where they were. I immediately chuckled and I began to reminisce about the times when I was much younger, and I would get into my mother’s shoes, clothing and perfume and my grandmother’s wigs. I would clump around the house with clothes big enough to fit three of me and shoes three times my size and a wig that made me look so many years older. I remember how funny it was to all the occupants of the house and how they would laugh and take pictures of me caught in a state that exhibited me trying to be more grown than I was and trying to walk in a garment that in no ways fit me or suited me.
How often are we looking at the garment that someone else has and we are playing dress up in our spiritual walk? We are trying on lingo, behaviors and anointing’s that are not ours but someone else’s just to give the appearance that we have it all together and that we are in a place with God that does not come close to fitting us, nor have we grown to. As with David when Saul adorned him with his armor, David could not walk in it, for it was not the garment that God had ordained for him, it was someone else’s; it was Saul’s it was too Big. When we are trying to be someone we have not grown to, or earned in the Kingdom of God we are liable to be appearing awkward, unstable and we are predisposed to trip ourselves up and fall down. The garment that God has designed for us at each position and each step of our journey is uniquely made for us and our abilities and anointing, but if we are trying to cloak ourselves in an garments that are other people’s just because it looks good on them and we are trying to be so deeply spiritual and grown up in the Kingdom we are setting ourselves for an attack at the level of the garments we are trying to don. We also have the ability to cause others to fall. If they are watching and we are wearing a garment that is not ours we can find ourselves giving advice or an example that we are not qualified to give, and leading people astray.
It is time to stop playing dress up, and be true to where your relationship is with Christ. The cost of the garment you are trying to put on may be way too high for you to pay. Or it may be that the garment God has for you is better if you would only let Him dress you, when He is ready instead of you attempting to dress yourself in the garments that you see people wearing around you. It is always true that garments that are made for us suit us better than ones made for anyone else…Know where you are in your walk and in your relationship with Christ, because really you are not fooling the person that matters most! He knows who you are and where you are in relationship to Him regardless of what you may be trying to put on!
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