SECRET BAGGAGE (Part 2) • ”Enabling” • Barry Bandara

• This Series: Each of us has unresolved issues that we carry around. In a word, it’s called baggage. Although you do your best to ignore it, conceal it, or fake it, your baggage burdens your life while slowly squeezing out hope for your future. Before passing your baggage on to your children, let’s unpack this dead weight so you can begin living a life of freedom that God desires for you.

 

• This Week: Enabling is often disguised as “love” but is in fact, not loving at all. Enabling is even disguised as “helping” but is in fact, hurting. When we enable, our irresponsibility will eventually become someone else’s responsibility. Enabling allows for lying, laziness, promiscuity, cheating, anger, etc. to foster, grow, and produce a harvest of pain for many people. There is life-giving freedom when the baggage is vanquished.

Key Phrase: “I would judge his family forever because of the sin he knew about; and he failed to retrain them.” 1 Samuel 3:13