I'm sure you've experienced that frustrating moment when you've arrived at the checkout counter and reached into your purse to pay, but it's so full you can't even find your wallet. You begin to frantically dump the contents of the bag onto the counter, only to discover several things you thought you lost.
Sometimes our lives can look like an overstuffed handbag. We find ourselves carrying so many needless weights and burdens. And just as all the unnecessary contents in our purses can keep us from finding our wallets, these internal weights and burdens will hinder us from having and doing all God has for us.
Jealousy, comparison, anger, worry, anxiety, insecurity, unforgiveness – do any of these sound familiar to you? What weights are you carrying that could be dragging you down?
Get rid of the heavy handbag! Jesus wants to take your burdens – the things that are weighing you down – and set you free.
~ Hebrews 12:1-3 ~
1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
