Where to drop off our emotional baggage and 6 steps to follow
Psalm 147:3 – He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds (KJV)
When I tried to carry all my bags on my lap:
I loved travelling by trains growing up in India, especially the two – day train trips my family did during our summer holidays . There were no rules on how many baggage we could carry with us. I remember packing my little bag and stuffing it with my clothes, books, toys, and snacks.
As I hopped onto the train, I decided to hold onto my heavy bag despite my parents asking me to put them down. It didn’t even take a few minutes before I started complaining about how my lap hurts. My daddy then reminded me how each of our bags have a place to be dropped off, and need not be carried during the travel.
Oh, what a valuable lesson it was. I have often tried to carry all my emotional baggage with me ultimately affecting many relationships that I came across in my journey. Then I remembered My Heavenly Father’s voice as I woke up startled in one of my nightmares, “Drop off your baggage upon me”
Dear Friend, how heavy are your baggage?
Have you been lugging them all alone these many years into every relationship you have been blessed today with?
Are there wounds still raw that you haven’t been able to heal and causing a wedge in your life?
Where do these baggage stem from?
These could be baggage you are carrying from a broken home where you experienced abandonment, or where you witnessed your parents fighting every single day, you were teased/bullied for your appearance, where you got molested by people in your family or neighborhood.
There is a stronger possibility of those with unresolved conflicts and baggage to turn to food for comfort, have sexual addictions, mutilating oneself , turning to alcohol to forget the pain, and the worst one turn away from God and dislike the church.
Daddy God never ever abandons nor pushes us away when we cry out to Him. He knows our frame, and He knows our struggles. He can heal our broken heart, and cheer our fallen countenance.
Psalm 147:3 says, He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
Bindeth also means loving puts bandages on our wounds. God tends to our wounds like a mama who tends to her children, like a dada who comforts his son, like a physician who carefully stitches up the open wound.
Where can we DROP OFF our baggage?
Dear Friend, there is a GOD whose shoulder is broader than anyone else’s to carry all your baggage, whose heart can carry all your wounds, whose feet will never trample you as you fall down, and whose love never scrutinizes your scars.
Drop all your baggage, my dear Friend , and let the ONE and Only Lord Jesus Christ carry them all for you. Do not try to take back what you gave to the Lord in tears and prayers. He can certainly give you deliverance from the nightmares you have experienced.
When we have an intimate relationship with our Heavenly Father ,we can ultimately enjoy our God-given relationships on this earth without any baggage.
Turn to Jesus for comfort and healing and not to the Devil . The Devil is out there to turn you against your Maker.
Here are 6 step to follow as you dropOff and run away from unwanted baggage in your life:
- Confess your own sins you have committed in your own life knowingly and unknowingly. Let the Lord release you from all your guilt.
- Spend time fasting at least once a week. I picked Fridays since I was born on a Friday.(just a little fyi)
- Study the Word of God and let God speak to you on forgiveness, healing, anger issues, and restoration.
- Keep a journal and take notes of every theme you find reoccurring in your study time and areas you need work on presently.
- Use quiet hours in your home for prayer time. I would say early mornings are the best when the whole house is still sleeping and you are not tired from a weary day.
- Find a trustworthy same-sex mentor or accountability partner to pray along with you as you find restoration in the Lord.
did this blog post speak to you today? How did you handle your baggage? Is there any step you would like to add so it will be a blessing to everyone reading? Won’t you comment below, Friend?
Drop offs only -for the Lord thy God will carry them all for you!
Until we meet again here,
Diana
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Ting
April 7, 2017 at 1:14 pmDiana, thank you for this helpful post! I am always needing to drop bags. I am usually stumbling under my own weight, I think ultimately God will have to cause me to totally die to myself…oh wait…I was also born on a Friday! What a great idea!
Diana
April 7, 2017 at 2:00 pmWhat a blessed thought- to die to oneself so that we find life through Christ and able to drop all of our bags.
Love that you were also born on a Friday 🙂
Diana
Diana
April 7, 2017 at 1:59 pmThank you,Beka for the encouraging comments. There is complete freedom in Christ- Amen to that!
Diana
Dani M.
April 7, 2017 at 2:31 pmVery, very encouraging! So often we are weighed down by past burdens, instead of handing them over to our gracious, powerful Lord!
Diana
April 8, 2017 at 3:37 pmHi Dani, thank you for your blessed comments. We allow our past to be dragged into my present lives ,and forget to hand them over to the One who is willing to carry them all.
God bless
Diana
April 8, 2017 at 3:40 pmHello Summer, thank you so much for the thoughtful and blessed comment. I do like your point that as brides of Christ we don’t let our Heavenly Groom carry our bags for us. He has set us free ,and yet we choose to stay confined in our past.
God bless
Diana
Eunice
April 8, 2017 at 6:57 pmWow such an encouraging n comforting words.. And yes every time we tend to forget that there is a person on whose shoulder we can baggage down our worries n past.. Thanks for reminding me again..that God still loves me..
Amen.
Diana
April 9, 2017 at 6:25 pmThank you ,Eunice for your blessed comment. There is our Savior whose shoulder is broad and strong enough to carry all our baggage.
Love,
Diana
mavis
April 9, 2017 at 7:45 pmI love how you explained it.Carrying your baggage on the train. We tend to forget at times that God is on our side. Maybe not totally forgetting but maybe we have trouble trusting Him. “Lord, help me overcome my unbelief!” He is a faithful God. Thanks for this beautiful piece
Diana
April 11, 2017 at 10:51 amThank You Mavis for your blessed comments. Yes we often tend to trust that God is capable to carry our burdens ,but He wants to carry them all for us.
God bless
Diana
Joanne Viola
April 10, 2017 at 5:17 pmI am so grateful that we can drop off any of our luggage to our God. We never need to carry anything too heavy or not meant for us to carry. Blessings!
Diana
April 11, 2017 at 10:53 amThank You Joanne for stopping by and for your comments. Indeed we do not have to carry anything that is heavy or that which weighs us down. What a loving God we serve who is willing to carry all our baggage for us and in return give us healing and comfort
Diana
Elisheba
April 11, 2017 at 12:18 amBeautiful and blessed passage..very true that there are lot many things that mess our lives but we have an awesome God with a broad shoulder who mends our hearts…Amen..
Diana
April 11, 2017 at 10:54 amThank you Elisheba. A loving God the Father and Lover who is willing to mend our broken hearts and carry our bags for us. It doesn’t matter how heavy or what time of the day it is -Just drop it off forever
Diana
Calandra Williams
April 11, 2017 at 10:36 amThis was a beautiful post. We all need this reminder to drop of baggage and allow God to heal our hearts.
Diana
April 11, 2017 at 10:55 amThank you Calandra for stopping by my blog and for your encouraging comments. He healeth all our wounds and mends our broken hearts-No one else in this world can heal us from our hurts.
God bless
Diana
Lauren C. Moye
April 11, 2017 at 7:48 pmDiana – what a sweet and funny memory! I love the lesson you shared with it, as well as your urging to drop off baggage where it belongs. Your steps at the end are great. I will make sure to share this post where I can so that others can be blessed.
Diana
April 12, 2017 at 3:18 pmThank you Lauren for your blessed comments. We can learn so many lessons from our lives that connect to God’s message for us from the Word. Thank you for sharing it with others as well
God bless you
Diana
Joanna Mayes
April 12, 2017 at 7:20 pmGreat post! I see God healing so many of emotional traumas and the scars left behind!
Diana
April 12, 2017 at 10:22 pmThank you Joanna for your prayerful comments. Yes, God is on the move healing those with traumas and baggage, He wants us to DROP IT OFF forever.
God bless
April Clevenger Boyer
April 17, 2017 at 7:50 pmExcellent tips for a common problem! I am so glad that you work to keep walking with God and learning His teachings. and thanks for visiting my blog. Blessings in caring for those 3 little ones!
Sue Donaldson
June 3, 2017 at 11:06 amamazing how we like to keep our bags on our laps when God is so willing to carry them and put them where they belong! great post!
KellyRBaker
November 30, 2017 at 8:10 pmHe is such a beautiful Savior to take away our junk and replace it all with His abundant life! Wonderful post!
Susan
January 18, 2018 at 9:52 amHi Diana, thank you for posting this on Chasing Community. Your insight on unloading our emotional baggage is filled with wisdom and lifts an emotional weight off my shoulders. Following your suggestions will surely empty our hands of our current burdens in order for God to refill them with gifts of joy and peace. May God richly bless you for sharing from the heart.
Diana
January 18, 2018 at 10:29 amSusan, I am so glad to hear from you today. Drop-offs with the Lord is a one time thing where we do not have to reload those baggage upon ourselves again. I will pray that you will continue to find freedom from any weights . Blessings to you as well
Brenda
January 18, 2018 at 3:54 pmSometimes we don’t even recognize how much we’re holding onto until we get quiet with God and take time to see it. Great tips, Diana. Thank you for sharing. 🙂
Diana
January 19, 2018 at 7:47 amAbsolutely Brenda, we prefer to hold on to our baggage rather than Giving it back to the Lord . Thank you for stopping by
Diana
January 19, 2018 at 7:48 amOooo, I love your line – the One who carried the Cross can bear our baggage too. Praise the Lord
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