It’s Time to Cut Weight….

Let us examine our lives for a minute. “Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?” 2 Corinthians 13:5

In other words Paul was saying, “Examine yourselves to see if your faith is genuine. Test yourselves. Surely you know that Jesus Christ is among you; if not, you have failed the test of genuine faith.”

I want us to look at a verse of scripture that we all need to consider and we all need to take heed to what the Word of God says. The book Hebrews tells us this;

“…. 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,” Hebrews 12:1b

In other words, the Author of this book is saying, let us (Followers of Jesus Christ) take off or strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us.”

A lot of times we only think that it is sin that trips us up or causes us to drift away in our walk with the Lord. But notice Hebrews 12:1b says let us lay aside (or strip off) every weight, AND the sin that so easily trips us up.

There are things in our life that we need to get rid of that easily trips us up in our walk with the Lord! We need to lay aside, cut off, strip off, or do away with ANYTHING that endangers our relationship with God!

  It is time for us to “Cut Weight”. In the sport wrestling, many wrestlers will “Cut Weight” to wrestle at a lighter weight class, in hopes of gaining a strength advantage over his opponent.

Followers of Jesus Christ! It is time we “Cut Weight”, examine our lives and get rid of anything that is hindering our relationship with the God Almighty! Our opponent is Satan, and he is out to steal, kill and to destroy us at all cost! Satan hates us. Satan will use any person, any circumstance, any song, any technology device, any substance, or ANYTHING to destroy our lives!  I don’t know about you but in my walk with the Lord, I need every advantage and every bit of help I can get while living life as a follower of Jesus Christ.

 “…. 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,” Hebrews 12:1b

Each one of us has something that weighs us down, something that we can’t seem to get rid of, something that continually sucks every bit of energy and joy out of walking with the Lord.

Lord, help us to examine our lives and to lay aside every weight and sin in our lives that so easily trips us up. Lord, help us to run this race of life with patience and endurance, while giving you the honor and glory that you so richly deserve!

I want to leave you with a thought………………………

Living this life as a Christian, or I like to say living this life as a “Follower of Jesus Christ”, is hard. It is easy to say you are a Christian, but yet your actions do not reflect anything Christian at all! As a matter of fact so many people want Jesus as their Savior, but they fail to make Him Lord. Lord means supreme in authority. Is Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior the “Supreme Authority” in your life? Or is Jesus Christ just your “hell insurance”? Did you just say a prayer for God to save you and then you continued to live in sin? Was there a change in your life? Did you repent and turn away from sins?  Or did you just want enough of Jesus to save you from going to hell? These are all questions that we need to ask ourselves.

Jesus loves you!

Confess your sins. Turn from your sins. Believe in your heart. And ask Jesus to save you. Read Romans 3:23. Romans 5:8. Romans 6:23, Romans 10:9-10,13.

 Peace be with you and God bless you forever!