Lay aside every weight. Every weight. What weighs you down? What gives you that spiritual heaviness that threatens to crush you with its weight? You know what I'm talking about, I know you do. Something that weighs you down keeps you from being lifted up. What sort of things weigh you down? Maybe it's your thoughts? Maybe it's your cherished sins. You might feel the heavy weight of conviction given to you by the grace of our Lord, intending that you repent and seek forgiveness for the sins. Laying aside the weight means...
Lay aside every sin. Every sin. Laying aside every weight means laying aside every sin. If you're laying things aside, you are letting go of them aren't you? You are getting them away from you. You can't hold onto something you've laid aside, not unless you choose to pick up that something again. We are to lay aside our sins. Is it possible? Only through Jesus Christ! We are wretched men caught up in our flesh nature, minding things of the flesh and as such we have to look outside of ourselves for the victory - from the smallest of victories to the greatest. When we recognize a sin in our lives we have to choose not to cling to it. We have to choose to despise it. We have to choose to seek repentance and forgiveness. We have to choose to be rid of that sin in our lives by not clinging to it, by not encouraging ourselves to hold onto it. We can't tuck away our cherished sins, we have to lay them aside, let go of them. Sins we cherish are the hardest to be rid of. These are sins that we enjoy, sins that give us pleasures, sins that are easier to commit than fight against.
We do that don't we? We commit sin because it's easier than the fight against it. And we are all for indulging ourselves, making our lives easier. We confuse ourselves by believing God wants us to have an easy life, He expects us to strive for a life of ease, the path of the least resistance to our contentment. The trouble with that, it isn't want God wants for us at all! God wants us to love Him, and in loving Him we choose not to sin no matter the cost to our ease, to our comfort, to our life. Because sinning SEPARATES US FROM GOD! God never wants us to be separated from Him.
Sin's evil is its ability to separate us from God!
Sin separates us from LOVE!
More tomorrow by the grace of our LORD JESUS CHRIST!
Heb 12:1 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
Lay aside every sin. Every sin. Laying aside every weight means laying aside every sin. If you're laying things aside, you are letting go of them aren't you? You are getting them away from you. You can't hold onto something you've laid aside, not unless you choose to pick up that something again. We are to lay aside our sins. Is it possible? Only through Jesus Christ! We are wretched men caught up in our flesh nature, minding things of the flesh and as such we have to look outside of ourselves for the victory - from the smallest of victories to the greatest. When we recognize a sin in our lives we have to choose not to cling to it. We have to choose to despise it. We have to choose to seek repentance and forgiveness. We have to choose to be rid of that sin in our lives by not clinging to it, by not encouraging ourselves to hold onto it. We can't tuck away our cherished sins, we have to lay them aside, let go of them. Sins we cherish are the hardest to be rid of. These are sins that we enjoy, sins that give us pleasures, sins that are easier to commit than fight against.
We do that don't we? We commit sin because it's easier than the fight against it. And we are all for indulging ourselves, making our lives easier. We confuse ourselves by believing God wants us to have an easy life, He expects us to strive for a life of ease, the path of the least resistance to our contentment. The trouble with that, it isn't want God wants for us at all! God wants us to love Him, and in loving Him we choose not to sin no matter the cost to our ease, to our comfort, to our life. Because sinning SEPARATES US FROM GOD! God never wants us to be separated from Him.
Sin's evil is its ability to separate us from God!
Sin separates us from LOVE!
More tomorrow by the grace of our LORD JESUS CHRIST!
Heb 12:1 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
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