We go through life carrying weights that we were never meant to carry. The weight of fears, the weight of worry, the weight on anxiety, the weight of depressions, the weight of hatred, the weight of jealousy. When we carry weights we were not meant to carry we end up fatigued, tired and exhauted all of the time. It makes it impossible to enter into the rest of God. What did Jesus say?
29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest unto your souls.
30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
God never intended for us to carry the heaviness of this world. Guilt, low-self esteem, failures, abuses, bad memories, pressures to succeed, financial weights, these all add up to heavy weights that will eventually lead our minds to darkness. In the darkness is confusion, uncertainty, doubts, unholy fears, pressures, distractions and the like.
Jesus promises us that He would give us rest, but we must take his yoke upon us. What yoke is that? His yoke is meek and lowly in heart. We hang on to our worry, because we think we want to try to solve our own problems. We hang on to our guilt because we think we can do better next time. Self perservation is the MAIN reason that we hang on to the weights that God wants to free us from. We must take on the meek and lowly yoke of Jesus and refuse self perservation and cast off every weight of this world!
What must we do? With each weight we carry we must make a conscious choice that we REFUSE to carry that weight any longer. When it comes to worry, just say, "NO! I refuse to carry that." When it comes to insecurities, just say, "NO! I refuse to carry that!" Whatever your sorrow, whatever your weight just say, "NO! I will not carry that weight!" If you allow darkness to rule you it will take control of every area of your life. It is time to refuse to carry the weight of this world and rise up with wings as eagles and walk in the light of HIS Glory.
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