The Rudder

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sgeyT7AcCg&NR=1



The last moment on the video is shocking but true. That baggage, if not checked for good, can lead to some dire consequences. I struggle with bitterness and resentment when I feel I'm not getting what I deserve, I think to some extent we all do. It's when I choose to take it with me that the contamination takes over.

Years ago, I heard a story of a remote town in Africa where people were dying. They ruled out diet, and water from a spring fed, running stream seemed OK, but as they dove to the bottom of the spring source, they found some pigs had fallen in and drowned. Because of how deep they were, they couldn't be seen from the surface. The search required a deep dive to discover what was poisoning the people. Once the source of the poisoning was removed, the people were saved.

Psalms 139 verse 23 says; "Search me from the inside out, you see all my anxious thoughts and all the past that is harmful, put to rest all the mess and lead me to follow you." In other words God, I need you to get rid of the junk in the trunk!