"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, looking unto Jesus."--
Heb_12:1-2.
Lay aside EVERY
weight.
Weight weighs us
down and in the Spiritual sense the weight that can drag us down spiritually is
sin, right? The sin that EASILY besets
us. We know don't we? We know our sins. We
can't pretend they don't exist in our lives. We can't gloss over the sins, and
we can't ignore them- they don't go away. Our sins must be confessed. Our sins
must be repented of. Our sins must be
laid aside. We must GIVE up our cherished sins.
The other day we
talked about sins being the breaking of God's laws, this is truth.
We sin when we do
not love God.
We sin when we do
not love others.
We sin when we put
self first before God and others.
Whatever keeps us
from loving God and loving others makes up the weight that we must lay aside.
We have to LAY ASIDE all that would keep us from loving God and others, do
we?!
Whenever we find
ourselves thinking unloving thoughts, about to commit unloving acts, we need to
seek God and the strength He can provide us through the Holy Spirit. We have to
seek forgiveness. We have to choose to lay aside the sins that EASILY beset us.
And… we must do this
as we run this race of life with PATIENCE, looking to JESUS.
We cannot take our
eyes off of our SAVIOR, He is our HOPE, truly our ONLY HOPE.
Please FATHER,
please help us to examine our lives constantly as we run this race we are in,
and in examining our lives let us comprehend the sins that are weighing us down
spiritually threatening to destroy us.
We need to live for our SAVIOR, for the Love that HE HAS for us, for the
SACRIFICE He's made for us! Please teach
us to set aside anything that would keep us from following YOUR will!
Please! Without You we are nothing, nothing.
All in YOUR LOVE!
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