Oct 28 2024 … Letting Baggage Go

Oct 28 2024 … Letting Baggage Go

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  

… Please take time to hear Jack Cassidy, with music and lyrics, singing Let God, Let God, showing that we Christians need to let go of our sinful selves and receive God’s forgiveness and love to know who we really are in Christ.     

 

Heavy text - a burden ... 

  

Highlight Verse: … Genesis 33:4 [NLT] …  

 4 Then Esau ran to meet him (Jacob) and embraced him, threw his arms around his neck, and kissed him. And they both wept. 

… Esau runs to Jacob and hugs him in forgiveness and love.  

Highlight Passage (in context): … Genesis 33:1-11  … [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… Jacob receives Esau’s forgiveness with gifts of repentance, restoring their brotherhood.          

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Reference Passage: …  Proverbs 17:9, 28:13 … [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

...  Godly wisdom from Solomon to let go, forgiving past sins, letting love grow and flourish with those who’ve hurt us in the past.             

Reference Passage: … Matthew 6:14-15 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …  

… Jesus calls on His followers in His Sermon on the Mount, to be willing to let go and forgive past hurts so that God, our Father, can - and will - forgive us our past sins.

Reference Passage: … Mark 11:25  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

…  Jesus teaches truth about being willing to let go and forgive anyone where you been hurt in the pas so that our God can forgive us of past sins.                                                    

Reference Passage: … Ephesians 4:31-32 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …   

…   The Apostle Paul calls on fellow Christians to let all past hurt and sins against them (us) go in forgiveness just as God is willing to forgive them (us). 

Reference Passage: … 1John 1:9 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …   

…   The Apostle John shows fellow Christians that God will cleanse them (us) from any/all sin if we’re willing pray and confess our past sins which weigh them (us) down.    

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread</b></i>  Author, Jennifer Benson Schuldt -  AT THIS LINK  tells of taking a course on Shakespeare’s writings and having to carry around a text of the great author’s writings which weighted several pounds (see photo).   And when the course was over, the ODB author was greatly relieved to jettison the weight of carrying that test around any more.   

And apparently that memory of letting go reminded the ODB author of being able to let go of the weight of past burdens, reading and remembering how Esau was able to let go of past wrongs that Jacob had done in the past to Esau; and how God’s forgiveness prevailed as the two brothers came together to receive God’s love as Esau was able to forgive Jacob and receive his brother’s gifts of love.  And the ODB  entry today calls on all of us Christians to be willing to let go of past hurts and burdens and to receive God’s forgiveness and His gift of cleansing love.  Oh, how I pray we can.                     

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for Your willingness to hear and forgive my past, … unburdening me to receive Your eternal love and forgiveness.         

My Prayer Today:  Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I’m praying that those who read with me here will join me to receive your grace and pass it on to others with our forgiveness and Your love.     …  Amen

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