Thursday, January 15, 2015

Let nothing keep us from love

"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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