I've noticed in the last few days that my black back (the paratrooper one) is getting heavier. It happens slowly...I add a book that I want to read. Then, there's a couple of CD's that I take to work. There's a few papers that I want to take home to Deb. Eventually, the bag is no longer the lightweight tool I wanted to use to keep essentials close at hand. It's become a burden, something that I resent carrying.
My life is like that, too. I want to travel light, so that when God tells me "move," I can move. But there are so many things that take up my time, energy, money and thoughts that it gets more and more difficult to act on his prompting.
As they were walking along the road, a man said to him, "I will follow you wherever you go."Jesus replied, "Foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head."He said to another man, "Follow me." But the man replied, "Lord, first let me go and bury my father."Jesus said to him, "Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God."Still another said, "I will follow you, Lord; but first let me go back and say goodbye to my family."Jesus replied, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the Kingdom of God." -- Luke 9:57-62I firmly believe that the words "No" and "Lord" have no business being together. But just as dangerous is "Yes, Lord, but..."
I see things that I will need to jettison from my life in order to grow closer to Jesus; I'll leave them in a comment. What's your excess baggage?
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