As I write this article, I am sitting in my garage in the middle of a garage sale. I don’t really like having a garage sale, but I like having had a garage sale. Let me explain.
Sorting stuff, setting up tables, and pricing stuff is not fun at all. I really don’t enjoy waking up at 5:30am to go out and finish getting ready.
However, there is a freeing feeling to watch stuff leave my yard. Things that have filled boxes in the basement. Items that have not seen the light of day for years. Slowly, over the period of a day or two, you get to see unnecessary junk disappear.
Maybe for some of us, it’s time for a spiritual “garage sale.†There might be something in your “basement†that needs to go.
Are you carrying unnecessary guilt?
Do you need to unload some unconfessed sin?
Is there a source of pain in your life that you need to expose?
Are there negative feelings you need to unload?
Jesus offers us a “garage sale†for our sin.
Then Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy to bear, and the burden I give you is light.†(Matthew 11:28-30)
Don’t let things weigh you down any longer. You don’t need to carry that burden. Open up the doors and let God in so He can take it away.
shine!
Jason
1 comment:
I don't mind hauling stuff out to sell. What I don't like (and don't do) is man the sale itself. Haggling isn't my game.
I haven't tried to sell off anything out of my spiritual basement, so-to-speak, but I've made a few trips to the spiritual town dump lately.
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