No,this is not a report from the fashion police,and no snoddy remarks from Joan Rivers, nor am I going to try to persuade you to switch your clothing attire. But I will try to point out to you a whole different approach into your dressing for success.
If you follow football and even if you don't but watch other sports, you are aware of the team with the star on their helmet and coming from Texas. Better known as America's Team, the Dallas Cowboys. Two weeks ago they fired their coach after starting off with a 1-7 record. They were a team destined to go to the Super Bowl because of all of their talent. But talent alone does not make a team. These players were undisciplined. So a new coach was brought in and laid down the law on them. Along with taking a strict approach to discipline, the coach is making them wear suits on their flights to and from road games.His reasoning on this was that he wanted the players to have respect for the team and the city they were playing for and to have some pride when representing that star on their helmets. It worked as they finally won another game this past Sunday.
About three years ago a Pastor at a large church in California had his congregation wear their faith on their sleeve, or should I say wrist. The month-long experiment was this:
Each member was given a bracelet to wear that included words of faith on them. They would wear the bracelet on their left wrist and then whenever they found themselves grumbling and complaining or having a lack of faith they would switch the bracelet to the other wrist.
At the end of the month just about everyone had switch their bracelets from wrist to wrist several times. The pastor himself even exclaimed he had switched his so many times that the bracelet actually broke.
This experiment was more than just a test of their faith. It was to make the members more conscious of their faith.
If you are a believer and know the Word of God than you should be familiar with the passages instructing us to put on the whole Armor of God each day of our lives.(Ephesians 6)
But just as Jesus instructed His Disciples, He instructs us to have faith in God and do not doubt in your heart, but believe.
Wearing your faith on your sleeve and living it out each day represents well that Christ is in your heart and is an important part of your life.
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."
---Einstein
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