What's In Your Bag (#284)
Bible version used: NKJV
WHAT’S IN YOUR BAG?
Have you checked your bag of rocks today—the ones you carry around with you wherever you go? You feel the weight even before you get up in the morning. Sometimes you turn those stones over again and again at 3AM when you wish you could sleep.
Others may not see them but you know what they are:
Financial worries
Your child is in trouble
Failures and lost dreams
Messed up relationships
Accumulated resentments . . . maybe of your spouse or co-worker
Stupid decisions
Some rocks you put in yourself thinking you’d deal with the consequences later . . . and ‘later’ has caught up to you. Some were given to you by others—maybe as long ago as grade school. Maybe even by a parent.
Would you be interested in leaving your bag of rocks somewhere, for good? Not just for an hour at a ball game, or overnight while you sleep. More like: Over the cliff, out of sight, gone for good.
You may have tried religion. But the rocks are still here, and maybe a big guilt rock was added when you were told how much of a sinner you are—a reminder you didn’t really need.
Jesus knows what is in your bag and He wants them—every single rock. He says:
Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Matthew 11:28
Here is good news: You can lay them down at the foot of the cross where He gave His life for you.
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. John 3:16
His plan is for you to come, drop your bag of rocks, and enjoy Him now and forever.
He is eager to have you join Him in His project for our rocky world.
If you want to know more about Jesus and His plan for you, talk to someone who has given his bag of rocks to Him. The most likely place to find someone like this is in a Christian church.
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A couple thousand years ago a guy named David had a bag of rocks a lot bigger than yours. (You can read about David’s rocky life in the book of 2nd Samuel). He prayed, giving his bag to the Lord and the Lord heard. Here’s what David wrote when the Lord delivered him from his enemies:
I will love You, O LORD, my strength.
The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer;
My God, my strength, in whom I will trust;
My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
Psalm 18:1-2
Texts used are from the NKJV.
No. 284 ($1.25/doz.; $8.00/100 + postage)