In all of our lives we accumulate a lot of things from each and every passing day….we grab this and that…and before long we have a lot of stuff….some may be helpful but some not so much….and we just keep it all just like we should….but really we shouldn’t….speaking both ways this morning…and speaking of how quickly in our lives we get junk added on to us…which in turn becomes very heavy….and is a lot of access…..which none of us need in our walk with Jesus…..we let things slip by…words maybe when spoken….we grudgingly do things that maybe we shouldn’t….we may gossip….we may murmur…and we may even just let unforgiveness reside in our hearts…and when that happens a root of bitterness and anger springs up from our heart….and I believe that if there ever was a time to get on our knees and cry out to the Lord for all of this accumulation of stuff that tries daily to grab ahold of us and stay with us than I believe that, that time is now…we live in a generation where tv is relevant…where movies, magazines….cell phones and internet all of these things are at our finger tips…and we look at these things daily…and as were looking than as well we are feeding our minds and our souls that inner man of us….the Lord tells us all to guard ourselves of these things…and as well for us to let go of hurt and the pain the strife, the unforgiveness….that bitterness, resentment….gossip, all of that murmuring and complaining….how can any of us grow and change to be the person in whom the Lord would have for us to be when were loaded and filled with nothing more than junk…..there is no way that we possibly can….so we guard our selves….we keep our minds and our hearts with all diligence..Proverbs 4:23…for out from of the heart the abundance of the heart the bible says the mouth will speak…Luke 6:45…and death and life are in the power of the tongue and they that love it will eat the fruit thereof…Proverbs 18:21…whether that fruit is ripe and good, or whether that fruit be spoiled, either way were gonna eat on something….so it’s not okay to do those things that each of us may do, and somehow do them all in secret and think that it’s okay…because guys that’s just not so….who we are around people to whom we are behind closed doors should always be the same person…we shouldn’t wear a mask…we shouldn’t be fake….we should be so real….with who we are…with what we do…and what we say….we should always be filled with God and we should always be growing and changing to be everything that our Father would have for us to be….life is to short to play around and play games….especially when we as Gods children are to be salt and light in this world…Matthew 5:13-16….for the word of God says, that if our eyes be evil, than our bodies with be full of darkens…and if therefore the light that is in you be darkness, than how great is that darkness?…Matthew 6:23….so we should be free from all of this darkness….we should never play with it…we should never let it dim our light that is from God….for our light is the most beautiful asset that any of us could ever have….so guard your light….guard them white robes…and guard your heart….and if there is any evil way or wicked way in you that you than you ask Jesus to help you, to change you and to set your free….for whom God sets free is free indeed…John 8:36….so let us all be free and walk in our freedom and our liberty where Christ Jesus has made us free…Galatians 5:1….never to be taken for granted…not ever, not ever, not ever…..In Jesus’ name I do ask and pray…Amen and Amen!! Be blessed today my dear sweet friends and remember wherever you go and whatever you do, Be a light for our Father, Much love to you all, Mandi