Once a week my husband rolls the garbage can to the
end of the driveway to be picked up by the garbage men. Some weeks we
have so much garbage that my husband can be seen climbing up on top of the
garbage and jumping to smash it down so we can get one more load of trash into
the can.
Why is it so easy to let go of that kind of trash
and yet the personal trash in our lives we choose to hang on to. In a
sense we fight to push it down into ourselves like my husband stomps our trash
down in the can. By pushing down our trash, I am talking about our past
sins that we can't let go off, we can never really be free and clean from our
sin.
My pastor talked last night in church about how
when we repent from our sins Jesus forgets about them. I guess he puts
them in the garbage and puts a lid on it. So why can't we do the same?
We often repent and than we take it back. I know I wouldn't want to
dig through my garbage can to pick some gross garbage out so I can stick in the
back of my closet and yet it is so easy for us to go and dig our sins back out
and hang onto them.
I love knowing that Jesus never holds our trash
over our heads. He won't bring up our sin to cause us shame. Jesus
knows how to take out the trash if we would just let him. If you have
been carrying around a sin let it go. Stop hanging on to the trash and
press into Jesus. Hang on to him and not the lies and trash that satin
loves to pile on us. There is freedom in Jesus you just need to get on
your knees and give it up your sin. He paid the price so it is
free for us to dump our trash and any day can be garbage day. He is
waiting to dump your trash so what is stopping you?
2 comments:
Awesome!!! What a great reminder of the message yesterday.
Great Kim!
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