John 14:6 Jesus said to him, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

 

Yesterday I shared with you a vision the Lord gave me about how our lives can be compared to a Scales of Justice. To recap, a Scales of Justice consists of a cross bar in the middle with a dish suspended from each arm. Due to gravity, when a weight is put on the left side dish, it drops and the right side dish goes up. When the weight on both sides is the same, both dishes will be exactly even. The Spirit showed me that our life is one dish and God is the other. In the middle, between us, is the Cross of Christ.

 

As we go through life and experience pain, suffering, heartache and sin, weights accumulate on our dish. Weight after weight is added until we are so weighted down we can hardly drag it all around.

God wants to free us from all this weight. He wants us to put it all on His plate. The ONLY way to do this is by going through the Cross of Christ. Jesus gave His Life on the Cross that we may have abundant life. Dragging around a dish full of heavy weight is NOT abundant life.

 

God does not automatically empty our dish onto His the moment we come to the Saving Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. We must willingly give up the weight that bogs us down. God wants us to live in total Peace on Earth but that is impossible when our dish is overflowing with heavy weights of sin and sorrow.

 

Only God is able to free us from the heavy weights in our dish. Doctors, lawyers, professors, psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists or any other person is not able to take a single weight off our dish and set us free from that burden. This is the Work of our Heavenly Father and He wants to do it! He made a Way for this to happen and Jesus said, I am the Way!  He is the ONLY Way to the Father.  His Sacrificial Work on the Cross of Calvary made it possible for us to be set free from every single weight on our dish!

 

All we have to do is give it up. That’s sounds easy but it’s not always that simple. To take a weight off our dish and put it in God’s dish takes faith in the Cross of Christ. You cannot get to God unless you go through the Cross of Christ. That’s the way God planned it and that’s the way it is. No man can change it, alter it in any way or make another way. There is no other way to God.

 

God sent His Son, Jesus, who went to the Cross so you can be set free from every weight on your dish! Hallelujah! That is the Good News of the Gospel of Christ and there is no better news!

 

When you finally give up, stop trying to do it yourself and decide to let God have a weight from your dish, all you have to do reach way down in your heart and pick that weight up off your dish. Then, take that weight through the Cross of Christ in the middle of the scale and place it on God’s dish fully surrendering it to Him. As you do this, verbally proclaim your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and His Sacrifice on the Cross. Thank God for loving you so much that He sent His Son to do this Work. Thank Jesus for willingly giving His Life so you can be set free from the weight of this world. Like a little child who is weak and unable to carry this any longer, BELIEVE God is able to handle the situation and free you from this burden. He is your good, good Father who is able. Nothing is impossible for Him.

 

Your faith in what Jesus accomplished on the Cross will give you access to God. Your faith in Him is what will set you free from the heavy burden of the weight because you are now TRUSTING God to do what you cannot do. 

 

What weight are you willing to take off your plate, and give to God today? What are you ready to stop trying to fix yourself? What have you suffered with long enough? Who is it in your life that you can’t “fix” no matter how hard you try? What situation (past or present) has haunted you long enough?

 

God wants to take care of that matter for you but He won’t take it from you. You must give it to Him. Jesus is the Way. You and your dish of weights are connected to God by the Cross of Christ.  Go ahead; trust God. He is faithful and true. Jesus died that you may have access to God who is able to do all things! He WANTS to lighten your load. Hallelujah!

 

Placing those weights in God’s Dish will……..turn the tide ……..in your life.

 

Another weight……..GONE!     Doreen

 

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