The cost of excess baggage

Excess Baggage

Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved. Psalm 55:22 ESV

 Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. 1 Peter 5:7 ESV

Ever wonder why we don’t turn things over to God like we are supposed to?  I was thinking about this today, then after praying tonight I just had the urge to get out of bed and come write.  So I guess someone must need to hear what I’m about to discuss.

I was thinking about the burdens we all carry around with us and came up with a thought that may put it in perspective.  OK, so let’s say you are climbing a mountain and you have a backpack on.  Now imagine every stress or worry in your life accounts for 1 brick.  So if you have an addiction you are trying to deal with, or maybe a personal conflict, whatever it is it weighs your climb down by 1 brick each.  How hard is it going to be to climb with an extra 10 bricks or so?  Why would you set out to climb with this added weight?  What if you were just getting ready to climb and someone told you, “ here, just give me these bricks “worries” and I’ll take care of them for you”.  Your climb would become much easier wouldn’t it?

Now I’m sure you all see where I’m going with this.  Why do we carry around all of these burdens when like our two verses tell us, all we have to do is just hand them over to God.  We have a journey to make as Christians.  We all have a spiritual mountain to climb, so with christian life being tough enough already, we don’t need anything to weigh us down.  There are no telling how many wonderful things we miss out on everyday just because we are weighed down with unnecessary worry.  If we are constantly dealing with some stress in our lives instead of just letting God handle it, then we are not going to be able to focus the time and energy needed to do His will.  And if we don’t do His will, then we are no good for God or ourselves.  

As most of you know, I’ve had probably the toughest year of my life.  I have learned many things through it all, but the most important thing I have learned is that if we allow God to work in our lives, we will be in awe of what He can do through us.  Every time I sit and write down my thoughts, I just have to sit back and realize that this is all from Him.  I never in a million years would have thought God would use me in this way, but I am sooo glad He is.

Point for today is simply to pray to God and just ask Him to take your burdens from you so you can be a more faithful christian.  Tell God you just want His will done in your life, and for Him to remove anything that may hinder it.

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