IDENTIFY THE BAGGAGE

It is easier to identify the baggage of others that it is identifying our own. The road to maturity is coming to grip with our weaknesses -- our sinful selves. It is assessing what is and is not consistent with Christ and asking The Lord for the grace to charge.

Hebrews 12:1,2  . . . 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, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith . . . 

The criteria for our decisions and conduct is what is right in God's eyes. We are to be a people of principal. It is never right to do wrong.

When we turn fully to The Lord and His grace, He can rid us of our baggage, transforming a sinful past into a source of blessing and ministry where He can use us.