FEEL THE WEIGHT COME OFF

            It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession. -Spurgeon

Hebrews 12:1-2, Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, 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; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

            So, I don’t know if you have ever been on a diet or not but when you begin to lose weight, if feels really good. It feels good to hear someone say, “Have you lost weight?” It feels good to put on a pair of pants and they don’t fit because they are too big. It feels good to know with the Lord’s help, you can do it!

            Hey friend, just like it takes help to get the weight off, we cannot put sin off by ourselves! It takes the Holy Ghost living in us to live the Christian life. It takes the Holy Ghost in us for us to chose to do right. It takes the Holy Ghost in us to feel the weight come off and for us to live a life of victory!

            Do you have Him? Do you know how it feels for the weight of sin to come off? If you have been saved, you do! Yield your will over to His will and watch the Lord work in and through your life!

BE FOCUSED

Man was created with two eyes, so that with one he may see God's greatness, and with the other his own lowliness. -Samuel Y. Agnon

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, 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; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrew 12:1-2

I am convinced many people are not laying down their weights and sin which so easily beset them. You ask, “What is a weight? What is the sin?” Well the weight is a burden or a hindrance. A sin is offence against God. Scripture says both of these are dealt with when we lay them aside. What this means is when we repent of them God gives us liberty!

When we repent God gives us liberty! We are to live life to the fullest in the liberty Jesus gives, keeping our heart focused on our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Focused on His Word, His Work, and His Way!