Taking off your figurative hats
"Throw off every sin that so easily entangles"
Hebrews 12 is one of my favorite chapters in the New Testament.
And I always love the line that is summarized “throw off every sin that so easily entangles” because it sounds so simple, right?
And, yesterday I talked about removing your hats when you pray…but today I want to talk about your figurative hats.
“I wear many hats” is a phrase you’ll hear people say at their work.
It means they do a lot of different jobs and that their job title doesn’t accurately share what it is they do at their place of work.
For me, I have always worked at jobs where I wear a lot of different hats.
In ministry, I was IT and youth pastor and children’s pastor and interim lead pastor and administrative assistant and cleaning guy and small maintenance dude…
In my business, I am marketer, founder, lead writer, customer service, lead generation, finance administrator, etc…
And, at home, I am dad, husband, lawn care, general contractor, gutter cleaner, waste management, activities coordinator, finance manager, etc…
And when I come to pray, I have to take off all of those hats.
These hats, unlike the physical ones, I have to take off every single time.
Because I need to strip myself bare of all that so easily entangles…sins or otherwise…
Because I am, in prayer, simply a chosen child of God.
And when I can practice putting myself in that mindset, prayer becomes exhilarating and freeing and beautiful.
Because all those hats come with a heavy burden…but being a child of God, before your Father, is safe and secure and free.
My prayer for today
Our Father, thank you for allowing us to come before you completely free and safe. Help us shed all of our hats and burdens weighing us down. Amen.
Remember
When you come before the Lord to pray, remember that you are a chosen child of God. No one except Jesus was born as a child of God, so God has chosen every single one of us who call ourselves faithful followers of Jesus. Rest in that chosen-ness.