Discover The Bible, Daily Devotional - Getting Rid Of Old Baggage

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Getting Rid Of Old Baggage

Scripture

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
(2 Corinthians 5:17)

Devotional

There will always be things in our lives that must become old, that is, they must change or be done away with. I call these things “Old Baggage.” These are the things we carry throughout life, things that are held dear or things that we believe to be important. “Old baggage” may be anything from a preference to a doctrine. There may have been a time, for example, that you preferred a certain type or style of music. You may have held to a certain teaching that you later found to be a doctrine of man and not of God. We must be willing to change in order to become new creations in Christ. We must be willing to rid ourselves of “Old Baggage.” It may be hard to relinquish the things of the past. However in order to grow and mature, we must allow some old things to pass away.

Daily Reading

Isa 17:1-18:7, Pro 25:11-12

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On September 12th, Adam said:

This devotion really spoke to me this morning. During times of stress or even depression, I tend to revert back to my old ways. For some reason, my brain thinks that the things I did before coming to faith, I did because my life was great. That is not ever the case. I had bad habits because I wasn't happy with who I was or where my life was headed. I was trying to fill a God shaped hole in my heart with addictions and negative, hateful, music. Today, in a bout of stress and depression, I found myself wanting to revert to that "Old Baggage" as if it would make me feel better.
There is no "better life" without Christ and doing things I used to do before I was saved will not make anything better. It will only draw me farther from Christ. Today came at just the right moment.