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This week I’ve been attend­ing A Woman Inspired’s online con­fer­ence “Get Revived”. Spring­time is a time of renewal and revival. There has been some great inspi­ra­tion fly­ing around over there but there is one dis­cus­sion that has com­pletely unwrapped itself to me.

As women, we have a ten­dency of pick­ing up other people’s bur­dens and car­ry­ing them around like a crazy cave­man. Then we won­der why we’re weary and frus­trated. God said he wouldn’t give us more than we can bear. So does it make sense for us to cry out to Him when all we have to do is put down what’s not ours to have?

Thank of David and Goliath…Sure, David was vic­to­ri­ous because he had God on his side, but I’m also think­ing he might have had another out­come had he lis­tened to Saul and wore the armor that was too heavy and didn’t fit him. David did what was nat­ural to him and God used his abil­i­ties to be victorious.

Wrap your mind around that…I can think of about 3 dif­fer­ent armors that I’ve been lug­ging around that doesn’t fit because it’s not my armor to wear. Just know­ing that is so free­ing to me!

Now, to fig­ure out how to leave those armors and not pick them back up…

This post is part of Tues­days Unwrapped
with Chat­ting At The Sky.