Free at The Cross

Fishing was good I think we caught 8 or 10. All three kids are now tying flies and doing great.
Have you ever felt over whelmed? I am there. The world is going at break neck speed and I am standing still. There are folks losing their jobs, trucks with blown motors, kids that are in the hospital and folks that won’t take responsibility. I often feel caught in the middle. I find it interesting that the world and more so your own world tends to get roiled up by the wake of sin. All of the sudden you look around and where you are fishing in your own stream the water is all muddy and it was clear just a moment before. You look around and notice that someone else in the past has made a bad decision or maybe a lifetime of bad decisions and it has finally made it into your stream. Now the fishing is lousy and the rivers eco-system and the watershed down stream are in jeopardy. How do we combat this? I don’t know other than to get help. Forget the past and I mean forget it. Don’t repeat it. Your help should come from those around you, a friend, your spouse, your pastor or a counselor. The past has left a wake in all of our lives but Christ has called us to a new life, a more abundant life. It is our choice. We can pick up our cross and carry it into a more abundant life or we can sit there and continue to look behind us at the cross and wonder why we never move forward. Moreover we must put ourselves in the proper place with Christ. As I sit here writing this I realize that I have fallen short of this, I have not picked up the cross and moved forward. Christ is first and I am not. I have for years either buried the past hurts or allowed them to creep in and pop up at the most inopportune times. The past is put to death on the cross just as Christ was, that is why he died. He died that we may be free of the past and free of future sin. I encourage you tomorrow to nail the past to the cross and set your self free just like He set you free 2000 years ago. You are free and that freedom is yours to claim. I will claim it tomorrow. I know that this is a convoluted mess in some ways, but it the best I can do to explain all that is happening in my world.