So tonight was a youth service at the Refuge (great church by the way). And we started a new series called "Check you Bags". Tonight's was about baggage we carry. Three types that were talked about were emotional, physical, and past baggage. In all these, carrying it was keeping us from God.
The youth pastor, Eric Lotz, was talking about how he went flying a lot and the less luggage you bring flying the easier it is to get around. Well when he said this a "God thought", as I like to call it, popped in my head. To me "god thoughts" are just when you hear something and God points it out to you and relates it to something in your spiritual life. Anyways, about the plane and luggage. The way God pointed it out to me was this....
The less stuff we hang on to and the less boundries we set for ourselves and the spirit, the higher we'll fly in him. If we want to see God do something we've never seen before, we've got to do something we've never done before. Including giving up things that aren't holy. Music, popularity, sports, anything that has more of our heart than God. It is said that God will not dwell in a place with other idols.
Following God includes a sacrifice, and no matter what, it will always be worth it.
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