What's in the basket? All kinds of things. It varies from person to person but we all have a basket that we carry at all times. The basket contains our worries, our problems, our disappointments, our anger, our frustrations, our fears, our habits (both good and bad) and for some it includes stuff! Stuff meaning money, job, possessions, anything that we think we need that helps define us.
There is something you need to know about this basket, "You can set it down any time you want!" You have the choice to walk away from it and you also have the choice to sort it out and remove some of the items and replace them with others.
Put it into perspective. If You found out you only had 24 hours to live, would you still want to carry everything you currently have in your basket? What would become most important all of a sudden?
A better question might be, "What would you want to put into that basket for the remaining 24 hours of your life?"
Stop carrying stuff that will make no eternal difference to you. Jesus said it like this:
Matthew 6:19-24
19 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust[a] destroy and where thievesbreak in and steal, 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
1 Peter 5:6-7
6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. 7 Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.
Psalm 55:22New International Version (NIV)
22 Cast your cares on the Lord
and he will sustain you;
he will never let
the righteous be shaken.
and he will sustain you;
he will never let
the righteous be shaken.
LOVE, pastor kent
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