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Good Riddance


  Every so often you will hear about a person that is trapped under their possessions. Some hoarder whose house is full of junk that they become entrapped in when a pile overturns. It’s sad but not unexpected. If you keep all that junk it's going to end up hurting you.
  

It’s not just stuff however that can entangle us. Sin, temptation, bad company, poor habits can all be piled on until one day it comes crashing down to our ruin.

 …let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
Hebrews 12:1 

 So why don’t we clean house? Get rid of the junk. Castaway the sin. End the bad relationship. Change the way we act. Our lives can be so much better without a lot of the things we cling to. There is such a thing as addition by subtraction. Things can be better without certain persons. Life can have more meaning when we eliminate worries. Blessing can come in when sin isn’t blocking the door.

 It may mean some work and sacrifice. It could mean some tough choices. We may shed some tears and go thru some withdraw pains, but in the end, we will have a clean life, a fresh perceptive and can open the windows and let the light in.

  Good riddance is just a phrase but a principle we should adopt.
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