Church was awesome!

I so needed this service.  I miss my Westview family when I'm not with them.  Not having Wednesday morning study, or Wednesday night home group, or Thursday night group, I so needed today!  The sermon was really good.  It's funny how it tied in with the book I've been reading (So Long Insecurity).  We were given keys as a symbol of something we usually keep even when we don't need them.  We tend to keep old keys that we don't even know what they open rather than throwing them out.  (Don't know why we do that, but we do)  The key was to symbolize old "baggage" that we don't need but that we hold onto.  We were told that we can give all that to Jesus and get rid of the baggage we hold onto.  He will know what to do with it, and we don't need to carry it any longer.  Steve (our pastor) told us that if we were ready to leave that old baggage to throw out the key on our way out of the sanctuary.  It was O.K. if we weren't quite ready to do it, that the decision was a personal one between us and God.  Not to throw it out just because someone else was.  I kept thinking of all that I'm overcoming thanks to the grace of God and Beth Moore's book that I was so able to throw that key out!  How liberating it was!!!