Today while pondering this I randomly clicked on a Rhema word as follows...
"Think of nothing but Him. The best way to drive off useless thoughts is not to combat them openly and still less to allow oneself to be troubled and disquieted by them, but just to let them drop, like a stone into the sea; little by little the habit of letting them drop makes this salutary practice quite easy."
The enemy tries to get us off track and lose our focus, which should be entirely... Jesus. It seems that the moment we take our eyes off of Jesus, we are fair game.
We, in of ourselves, cannot fight this battle, but we all know who can. He is standing there arms outstretched waiting on us to call upon Him. The key is to think of nothing but Him! Just now I randomly opened Every Day In His Presence (Charles F Stanley) to this...
"Emotional Baggage - Today everyone you know is "poor" or lacking in spirit in some way. They may be brokenhearted over a trial or ruined relationship captive to negative memories of the past, or disappointed by unfulfilled dreams. This emotional weight is not only a burden in their everyday lives, it's indicative that the enemy has a stronghold." End
How ironic that just this morning I saw this from "Light of Mary" Luz de Maria...
"I invite you to cleanse your memory anew so that, free from all the refuse of the past, you are willing to change radically. You retain so much in your memory that you have saturated it and are confused when you cannot put it in order... " See the entire message here... Light of Mary.
There's a similar theme going on here... It seems we need to unpack. It's not easy when that excess baggage is coming from those that you love most, but we need to give it all to Jesus.
I was tested on some emotional baggage right after I finished this post. God has a sense of humor. And, how did I do? Well, just let me say...
I need to work on it.
Lord help us!
Praise God!
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