I have a workshop. It's there where my tools, hardware, power tools, extension cords, etc are stored. Right now, my workshop is a mess. I haven't been keeping up with its organization and useful access. When a needed repair or project needs done and my workshop has not been maintained, the repair or project suffers because I might not be able to find the right tool or hardware I need at that moment.
As Christians, we all have a “workshop” that must be maintained and that “workshop” is a thought-life organized by the Lord Jesus...a “thought-life workshop” made necessary and useful through personal worship, personal prayer, and personal study of the Scriptures. Just like my workshop...our “spiritual workshops” are private...no one see them or cares about them, but when the spiritual repair is needed or a spiritual emergency fix demands it, if our “workshops” are not properly maintained, we'll have a hard time meeting the need...we won't be able to find the required spiritual “tools” or our spiritual “hardware.”
Not to belabor the illustration, the point is this: if we don't maintain our personal relationship with our Lord...if we're not seeking His face everyday and disciplining our thoughts and thinking around His word and in prayer and worship, we won't be of much use when the spiritual emergency requires us to respond as Jesus would...in our own lives or in the lives of others.

This is the point of today's My Utmost for His Highest:

“We imagine that we'll rise to the occasion when a big crisis comes along. But a big crisis only reveals what we're made of; it doesn't put anything new into us. Are you telling yourself that you'll do what's necessary if God gives the call? You won't—not unless you're already rising to the occasion. You have to be the real thing with God before the big event, in your private life with him.

A private worshipping relationship with God is the great essential of spiritual fitness. The time will come when you have to step out from your sheltered, private place—and go forth into the glare and the crowd. If you haven't been worshipping in private, as the occasion arises, you'll find you have no value to God in the outside world. But if you have been worshipping in private, you will be ready when God sends you out, because in the unseen life—the life no one saw but God—you've become perfectly fit. When the strain arrives, God will know he can rely on you.

Do you think you have no time for worshipping or praying or reading the Bible? Do you say to yourself, “I can't be expected to live a worshipful life in the circumstances I'm in right now; my opportunity hasn't come yet. When it does, of course I'll be ready”? You won't be. If you haven't been worshipping where you are right now, as the occasion arises, then in the crisis you'll be useless to yourself and an enormous hindrance to those around you. The workshop of the disciple's life is the hidden, personal time spent worshipping God.”

Let me paraphrase Matthew 6:6 -
But you, when you pray, go into your inner room (that “workshop” where our thoughts and intents are organized by the Word, prayer, worship), and when you have shut your (“workshop”) door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.

My prayer for you and me this day is this: Lord, some times our “workshops” are neglected...mainly because of procrastination or lack of motivation or just plain neglect. Lord, we are brought to repentance. We see our failing and our need. We commit to keeping our “workshops” ready to be used to serve You and bring You honor and glory. Amen.

Walk with the King today and be a blessing.