A Christian Closet: What's In Your Bag?

Ladies most of us carry some type of bag. Whether it's a purse, a backpack, a clutch, a wristlet etc. As women we are always carrying something! We also differ in how we carry it. We carry it on our arm, our shoulders, our back, our palms, or attached to our wrist. Sometimes even two or three ways. The point is we ALL carry baggage.

We love our bags from either famous designers, prestigious boutiques, or local department stores. In some bag there are many compartments that go deeper than the basic part of the bag. Some hidden and some more visible. We can visibly see our day to day bags we carry with us on our daily routine but usually cant recognize the baggage we carry in our hearts.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN? How Is baggage carried in my heart?

by letting your past situations effect your current circumstances....

"..........let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us". (Hebrews 12:1)

Some of the issues we carry ourselves and others can visibly see, like that big open part of your bag. Stuff like your attitudes that you grew because some guy broke your heart. So your all on social media posting and reposting talking about " they aint this and they aint that" " All men are dogs". Or because someone from your childhood made you feel like you weren't good enough by either your appearance or your actions. So you begin to act out for attention, being loud to get noticed, wearing revealing clothing tighter than your own skin to your bones JUST so that you can get 100 likes or more that makes you feel worth something.

Girl, RECOGNIZE YOUR WORTH. AND RECOGNIZE THAT YOUR FREE! You hear the term "let it go" and YES its easier said than done. But you have to allow GOD to come into your heart and prune your heart of those past issues. You have to let him heal those holes. GOD IS A HEALER. HE IS A DELIVERER!

Then it's those issues that we even hide from ourselves. Like those hidden compartments we lose a lot of stuff in! Those are the ones that mess me up personally! Those so called "little" things. Jealousy in our hearts, lack of self-control, gossiping about what this person's doing, buried hate towards those who hurt us physically and emotionally, secret hatred towards our own appearances. We try to tell ourselves " I'm Good". As women, we like to portray that everything is fine. It's the quality that is built inside our very DNA! But we have to get to a point where we FULLY surrender to GOD and ask him to search our hearts and reveal anything in us that is not like Him. Anything in us that "slows us down" and keeps us from going higher and who He himself has called us to be.

I'm not saying everything will go away immediately. It's a process that we have to remain faithful through and trust GOD and believe He is who HE IS! HE IS A HEALER! HE IS OUR COMFORTER! HE IS OUR DELIEVER! HE IS OUR STRONG TOWER! HE IS OUR RESCUER! HE IS YOUR FIRST LOVE! His love is what freed us. YOUR FREE!!!

Carrying heavy baggage hurts. I know it does girl. It causes us to not sit up straight. To walk lopsided. GET THAT JUNK OUT OF YOU SO YOU CAN WALK RIGHT!

We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life. Indeed, in our hearts we felt the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and He will deliver us. On Him we have set our hope that He will continue to deliver us. (2 Corinthians 1:10

Whew! Now that we cleaned our some junk. Lets look at some bags we can walk with in FREEDOM this SPRING/SUMMER 2013! HANDBAGS ARE A GREAT ACCESORY. WE CHOOSE THEM ON HOW THEY FIT APPROPRIATELY TO OUR CIRCUMSTANCES,CLOTHES, ETC,..

TRENDS FOR THIS SPRING/SUMMER 2013 SEASON IS A BRIGHT, STYLISH, SPORTY AND STRONG PERSONALITY!

LOOK AT HOW THE RIGHT BAG IS THE PERFECT ACCENT FOR ANY OUTFIT!

ORANGE, PINK, GREEN,YELLOW, INDIGO, & A BRIGHT RED ARE A HOT TREND FOR THIS SEASON. THIS MICHAEL KORS BAG CAN BE FOUND AT YOUR LOCAL DILLARD'S OR MACY'S.