The no Baggage Life
Friday, September 22, 2023
Baggage
When claiming your baggage at the airport, you position yourself next to the baggage belt and watch for it to come out. When you finally get your baggage, it feels like winning the lottery. There are a lot of journeys in life and usually the bigger the journey, the greater the baggage to bring. But in heaven there's no baggage claim. We're on a journey to heaven. You can't bring any baggage from earth. That's also the way it is with the heavenly life; there's no place for baggage. When you journey to the new life, when you come to salvation, there's no baggage claim for your old life. It's time for you to unload from the past; the baggage of sin, the baggage of old wounds, of your failures, of your regrets, the baggage of your idols, your old identity. Put it aside, because everything is new. There's no way to bring that old stuff into heaven. So let it go. Put away the baggage and get on with your life. Lighten your load. Drop it and move forward. Because in heaven and the heavenly life there's no baggage claim.

Today's Mission
If you have something from your past that has been weighing you down, today make the decision to let it go.

2 Corinthians 5:17
17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Because of this decision we don’t evaluate people by what they have or how they look. We looked at the Messiah that way once and got it all wrong, as you know. We certainly don’t look at him that way anymore. Now we look inside, and what we see is that anyone united with the Messiah gets a fresh start, is created new. The old life is gone; a new life emerges! Look at it! All this comes from the God who settled the relationship between us and him, and then called us to settle our relationships with each other. God put the world square with himself through the Messiah, giving the world a fresh start by offering forgiveness of sins. God has given us the task of telling everyone what he is doing. We’re Christ’s representatives. God uses us to persuade men and women to drop their differences and enter into God’s work of making things right between them. We’re speaking for Christ himself now: Become friends with God; he’s already a friend with you.

HAVE A GOOD DAY AND WEEKEND!