Putting On the Armor of God
Things have been rough at work lately. There really isn’t a prettier way to say it. Some days I come home frustrated, some days exhausted, and some days I find myself wondering how something that used to simply be my job became something that takes so much energy just to get through. Work shouldn’t follow you home in your thoughts, but sometimes it does. You replay conversations, question things that happened, and find yourself thinking about tomorrow before you have even had a chance to recover from today. Lately, though, I have been doing something every morning before I walk into that environment. I put on the armor of God. Not literally, of course, but very intentionally. I think about the words Paul wrote in Ephesians 6, and I remind myself that I don’t have to walk into the day unprotected. I may not have control over what happens around me, what someone says, what mood another person is in, or what gets thrown my way that day, but I do have control over what I carry in with me....