Our baggage, the drag of our past that we carry around in our heart, speaks the language of heartache.
We listen, interpret and feel the pain over and over, just like an ongoing conversation.
It's like the replay of the heart video that we want least to view.
So how can we translate the baggage of our heart into a new song?
Great counsel from others is a huge help.
But, at the end of the day, the most powerful translator is God and time spent pursuing Him somehow sets up a mysterious exchange--our baggage for delight in Him.
Psalm 37:4 tells us to delight ourselves in the Lord and He will give us the desires of our heart.
One of those desires is to translate our baggage into a new song: one that we always carry but only lightly, to be sung only when needed and only for a moment. Songs are stored and carried with ease.
Painful baggage into new song--the magnificent work of Translator God.
