Lay Down Your Emotional Baggage

By Dolapo Olushola-Uwaifo

Living life under the weight of emotional baggage hinders us from being at our best physically, emotionally, and spiritually. The word of God offers knowledge and wisdom to help us understand the reasons behind our emotional baggage, and the practical steps we need to take to lay it down in order to be free. This book documents my personal journey and the practical steps I took to lay down my emotional baggage at the feet of Jesus, so I could be free to embrace the bright future God had in store for me. From my story, you too can learn how to lay down your emotional baggage and be free indeed.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Jan 29, 2020
• ISBN: 9781098002435

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Lay down your emotional baggage

Dolapo Olushola Uwaifo

Copyright © 2019 by Dolapo Olushola-Uwaifo

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Table of Contents

Motivation and Confidence

Knowledge and Understanding

Forgiveness

Release, Rest, and Peace

Smile and Forge Ahead

Dedication

For my parents Johnson and Philomena Olushola.

For my husband Osagie Uwaifo.

Introduction

As I sat there, I asked myself, Does the Bible give a practical solution for dealing with emotional baggage?

Many of us have experienced things that have left us scarred for life. Maybe you are scarred with pain in your heart anytime you remember a particular experience, or you are scarred with anger anytime you see that individual who hurt, betrayed, or abused you. You are not alone. We all carry some form of scars in our hearts, and the devil is glad to see us suffer under the weight of the emotional baggage that we carry around with us through life.

Living life with emotional baggage is like being a burdened beast. You feel heavy, weighed down and under pressure. It’s a struggle to do anything because of the large weight that you carry around on your shoulders and in your heart. Have you ever wished you could make all your emotional baggage disappear? Like smoke in the air, have you imagined all your emotional baggage, hurt, and pain just magically vanishing? I am sure you have. I have too.

For several years of my life, I had been accumulating and carrying a lot of emotional baggage and emotional scars with me. I was in desperate need of a solution to ease the burdens on my shoulders or else I would soon give in to the evil ways the devil kept suggesting. I had two choices—follow the thoughts in my head or see if the Bible had any practical solutions.

The Good News revealed to me that turning to God is the most practical and effective solution for dealing with emotional baggage. It dawned on me that God knows many of His children are living like burdened beasts in this world, and He is not happy to see us weighed down by emotional baggage. That is why He offers us the chance to have a life free of heavy burdens and yokes. We know this is God’s intention towards us as His children because in Matthew 11:28–30, Jesus said, and still says to us till this very second,

Come to me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. All of you, take up my yoke and learn from me. Because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for yourselves. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

This Bible verse was the beginning of my journey to find a place of rest, where I