Do we ever feel as though there is something that is weighing us down? Maybe we don't know how to identify it or what it is? Here are five things that God's word points out that will cause extra baggage in our lives... Unfulfilled expectations.
(Proverbs 13:12) “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a
longing fulfilled is a tree of life.” Untreated pain.
(Jeremiah 6:14) “They dress the wound of my people as though it
were not serious. ʻPeace, peace,ʼ they say, when there is no
peace.” Unresolved yesterdays.
(Ephesians 4:26-27) “In your anger do not sin: Do not let the sun
go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a
foothold.” Unhealthy view of self.
(Romans 12:3 Message) “The only accurate way to understand
ourselves is by what God is and by what he does for us, not by
what we are and what we do for him.” Unrepented sin.
(Psalm 32:3-4) “When I kept silent, my bones wasted away
through my groaning all day long. For day and night your hand was
heavy upon me; my strength was sapped as in the heat of summer.
Selah” Let us trust fully in what God is showing us through his word and always rely on his strength and not our own. (2 Corinthians 10:5) “We demolish arguments and every pretension that
sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every
thought to make it obedient to Christ.”
(Romans 12:2) “Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world,
but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”
(Ephesians 4:22-23) “You were taught...to put off your old self, which is
being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude
of your minds…”
(John 8:32) “Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you
free.” Here are three ways of how God will remove and get rid of baggage in your life.
1. God still loves me.
(John 3:16-17 Message) “This is how much God loved the world:
He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no
one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a
whole and lasting life. God didn't go to all the trouble of sending his
Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it
was. He came to help.”
2. God can free me.
(Romans 8:1-2 Message) “(You) no longer have to live under a
continuous, low-lying black cloud. A new power is in operation. The
Spirit of life in Christ, like a strong wind, has magnificently cleared
the air, freeing you from a fated lifetime of brutal tyranny at the
hands of sin and death.”
3. God will restore me.
(Psalm 71:20) “Though you have made me see troubles, many and
bitter, you will restore my life again; from the depths of the earth
you will again bring me up.” | 
