Walk through O’Hare airport; and you’ll find everyone strolling around with their bags, and their baggage. Even though they are offered the opportunity to check or get rid of their bags, most preferred to carry their baggage with them wherever they went.
Bags, or baggage, are a big deal. If you decide not to check them, you have some level of “control” over your baggage, but you have to drag them around with you wherever you go. If you decide to check them, you are free from having to carry your bags/baggage around, but you also have to relinquish control over them. Is one really better than the other?
What if the baggage was mental, and not physical? What if we were talking about God’s word, and not the airport? In the Bible, Jesus offered believers the opportunity to take on His yoke, and to find rest from ours.
He offered up an opportunity for us to check our “baggage,” and to find rest for ourselves. It is very inviting and the right thing to do, but not necessarily the easiest. http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2011&version=KJV
Said one Chicago Christian and mother; “I went to the doctor, for a follow up visit. I prayed about it, but still sought feedback from family and loved ones. Did I check my bags?”
The road to mental freedom begins when you take advantage of an opportunity to put your bags and baggage away. It begins with freeing yourself from a burden you no longer have to carry, from sleepless nights, and from stress.
The next time you’re asked, relieve yourself of the mental weights and yokes that are currently around your necks. Allow God to check your baggage!
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http://www.examiner.com/chicago/discuss/getting-rid-of-your-baggage
Comments
Baggage for many of us is convience. We can use them to blame our short-comings on someone else. Some of us have carried negative baggage so long that we don't realize that we are carrying it. Have you ever notice people who end up at the altar on Sunday mornings supposely to leave their baggage there, but before they leave the building they have reclaim them.
absolutely...and it is bad for our health (spiritual and physical)......
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