Introduction

Welcome to the final week of our Baggage Series. As a brief recap of our first 2 weeks I would like to share this one sentence. Let go of the baggage in your life and travel freely into a life filled with expectation and anticipation of all that God can do in and through you. That sounds like a pretty good exhortation doesn’t it? Like a marketing email headline just begging you to keep reading. Are you interested? Or does it make you feel anxious?

Let’s be honest for a moment about something. There are some of us here today who’ve been hearing for so long that there are greener pastures ahead, that things are just about to turn a corner, etc.… and we’re just plain old tired. We want to believe, we know God is good, we’re just not sure where to begin. If that sounds like you today, I’m so glad you’re here.

I have a few scriptures to share with you as we get going: “Cast your cares on the LORD and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous fall.” - Psalm 55:2 “...do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more important than clothes?” - Matthew 6:25 “Come to me, all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” - Matthew 11:28 “Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.” 1 Peter 5:7

He cares for you. He wants the best for you - wholeness and abundant life. Let’s keep those truths in mind as we talk more about casting all our cares on the creator of the cosmos.

Let go of the baggage in your life and travel freely into a life filled with expectation and anticipation of all that God can do in and through you.

Main Teaching

Humility: As we identify the baggage in our lives, let it go, and trust God with your future, there is something else -- an imperative ingredient to the mix we cannot miss. The secret sauce… is humility. You need to be willing to ask for help, to seek out your blindspots, to get untangled from sin, to move forward. In fact, the passage we read from 1 Peter identifies humility BEFORE casting your cares on Jesus. Listen to this; “Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time, casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.”

As you know, it’s difficult to work with someone who is all puffed up with pride ... View this full sermon with PRO Premium