What kind of baggage are you carrying around? what is holding you back form being real with God? In 1 Samuel 10:22 saul is proclaimed to be the greatest man in the place and he is hiding behind the luggage. What are you hiding behind, what are pretending to keep from God? He knows everything about you, why are you hiding it, why are you keeping your baggage with you, he wants to take it from you and carry it for you. the keyword to getting rid of the baggage you have is forgiveness. Whether its you forgiving someone for something that they've done to you, or if it's you realizing that al you have to do is give it to God, it's forgiven. Don't seek revenge over soemthing that has been done to you, it only hurts you, and don't let this baggage weigh you down, it's too much for us to carry by ourselves.
Who are you know as, a Giant killer or someone who didnt' do much in the kingdom of God?
We don't lack discipline, we lack priorities. Where are your priorities? 2 Timothy 2:15 says, "Do your best to present yourself as to God asone approved a wrokman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth." Are you representing Christ, or something else?
We are different from the world, and we should look different. Why would someone want to be a christian if we look, act, talk, and speak the same as everyone else? "For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God." 1 Peter 1:23
If someone asked you why you believe what you believe what would you say? Do you know god or do you just know of God?
The only thing that gives us the ability to let go of our baggage we've been holding on tight to is God's greater love.
What do you want more, baggage that is holding you down, or freedom from having to carry it? What do you love more, the sin you are indulging yourself in, or The God of the Universe who created you and loves YOU?
You can have a huge stain on your life from past sins and still be a man or woman after God. It's giving that sin or sins to God that changes that sin to a stain. And it's what you do with it afterwards that makes your future weighed down or free. When you give your baggage to God, he can use it through you to help other people and it changes the whole perspective of the past.
Are you giving your life up for Christ? Are you laying down the things of this world that only last years for a God that lasts for eternity?
You can be so worried about your image and how other people think of you and how your friends think of you, that you will sacrifice the truth that you base your life on as a christian and have always believed in, just to be excepted.
God wil protect you for so long, but when we push and push he will guve us up to our own ways. He's a loving God not an invading God. He is standing there waiting for you to say "I want you in my life."
PRINCE OF PEACE
In the midst of a storm Jesus, the prince of peace, was sleeping. Not just a storm; howling wind, thunder and lighting, dark clouds, huge powerful waves, and he was asleep, because he is peace. He was woken up by the disciples to calm the storm. All Jesus had to say was "hush, be still." Soemtimes in the middle of our storm, when the whole worl has engulfed us and we have all odds against us, he is quietly saying "hush, be still." When is the last time you have just listened to him, just sat still and not read your bible searching for the answer to why you are hurting, or prayed that it would go away, but just listened.
Whatever we are going through he is more powerful than it, whatever it is. He's a counselor, the main reason we mess up our lives is because we don't listen to our counselor. Have you seen your counselor today?
How are you using your bible? To seek God or to earn the favor of man?
Pilippians 2:3-4
Do nothing out of selfish ambitionor vain conceit, but in humility consider others beter than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. be real with people and more concerned about them and their lives than you are with your own.
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