THROW IT OUT

Brother Cerullo and I travel so much that it seems like I'm always packing suitcases. With the luggage laid out on the bed, I begin: This "little thing" and that "little thing." I never think I'm packing much until I try to pick it up. It weighs a ton! Walking with it seems impossible; running with it would be absurd.

Yet that's exactly how "weights" of pessimism and negativity which block your relationship with God, are established. Bit by bit, this "little thought" and that "little thought" that isn't of Him gets shoved into the "suitcase" of your mind.

Each small act of choosing your own negative or pessimistic thoughts over His thoughts of faith and hope add one more weight. Soon your soul is so oppressed that fellowship is lost. In the night you doom the next day by deciding, "Things won't get any better. Tomorrow will be just like today. What's the use?"

God wants to set you on the road to freedom tonight. He wants you to start throwing off those weights of pessimism and get back in the race! He's telling you, "let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith..." (Hebrews 12:1-2, NKJV).

Before you sleep tonight, think of one "weight" (pessimistic attitude) that you will refuse to carry anymore. Then call on the Lord for His strength and throw it off! Tomorrow you will rejoice in freedom from oppression...


from Morris and Theresa Cerullo