OVER LOADED

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OVER LOADED.

Are you overloaded?  I am.

A couple of generations ago, when I was just a kid

there was an old saying that said;

"Three moves equal one burnout."  The meaning being,

every time you move your home, or residence, you 

eliminate all the extra stuff you have so you do not 

have to take it with you.  Three moves that way and

you throw away enough stuff to equal the house being 

burned down.

A few years ago God enabled us to move into a new

house.  The old house was old when I bought it and

after living in it for 36 years it was even older.  A real

good description would be it was "wore out".

The new house is on the same piece of property so

it was not necessary to tear down the old house right

away.  Some places you could not get away with that.

But in this area we can.

Finally the time came to begin cleaning up and tearing

down the old house.  WOW!  I do not know how else

to say it.  I could not believe how much was in the old

house that needed to be given away, sold, recycled or

thrown away.  And we have lived several years without

needing any of it.   So, why did we have it to start with?

Life seems to be that way.  We gain a lot of excess stuff

that we just have to have.  Then we go rent a storage

building to hold all the stuff we don't need to start with.

God speaking through the Apostle Paul said;

"For we have brought nothing into the world,

so we cannot take anything out of it either."  

(1 Timothy 6:7 NASB) 

Personally over the last few years I have been getting

rid of a lot of "stuff".  Believe it or not, the less I have

the less work and worry I have.  I am enjoying it. I can

either spend more time enjoying life or, and more 

important, preparing myself for that day thats coming

when I stand before God and give an account of myself.