Most people this day and age are concerned with their looks, their physical health, their mental health, and yes, their weight too. All of those things are very important to our overall wellbeing, but while we’re focused on making sure these factors stay at a normal balance, what is the condition of our spiritual and emotional state of being? Do we monitor those as closely as the others? Are we careful of what we allow in our daily lives and how long do we allow them to linger?
A scale is a good way to measure different things. They can reveal the truth in pounds, kilograms, ounces, and in grams. Depending on the source, too much weight at any given time can become dangerous. Equipment will have a label posted on it somewhere to alert you how much weight it can hold or handle without breakage, incident, or damage.
For instance, when you enter an elevator somewhere posted is its “Maximum Capacity”. This alerts you to pay attention to the approximate weight already on the elevator before you continue to enter. If the weight appears to have already been achieved—think twice before staying. It would be safer for you to catch the next one that stops at your floor.
When you’re shopping for personal items, you want to use at home, you also pay attention to the label posted on the treadmill, coffee table, television stand or aquarium stand, before completing your purchase to ensure it can hold the weight of your intended use.
We need to actively pay attention to the weight of the things we allow and attempt to carry emotionally in our lives too. The weight of emotional baggage, such as past pain and hurts, rejections, disappointments, and current dilemmas can begin to weigh heavy on our scale and if not removed they can cause a lot of damage to our physical bodies. The situations we see on the news, read about on other people’s Facebook pages, and in and around our neighborhoods, with family or friends can cause us to reach our weight capacity quickly.
Instead— Jesus wants to carry those things for you. You have to learn to “Shake Yourselves Loose” quickly from the desire to hold on to things unnecessarily. If we cast our care on a regular basis, we will have room to carry the things we’re supposed to carry and we will remain in balance emotionally, as well as physically. Most of the things that weigh us down are things we can’t control anyway. We must stop giving too much focus to things that we have no control over and let The Lord work them out in His time.
I urge you to make a decision today, to “Shake Yourself Loose”. Take inventory of what your scale reveals. Work with God to rid you from its heaviness, by refusing to hold on to things that weigh you down and steal your joy. The Lord has promised to carry the things that are too heavy—if we ourselves be willing to cast them off. Remember, those who love Him, in everything they face, it will eventually work together for their good. (Read 1 Peter 5:6-8 and Romans 8:27-28 KJV)
