Old Gods in New Tents

Whenever you pack your bags for a big move or a new season of life, what is the one thing you refuse to leave behind? Often, it’s not just clothes or keepsakes. If we are honest, we also try to pack our invisible baggage. We pack our old coping mechanisms, our secret fallback plans, and our subtle "just-in-case" safety nets. We want to follow God into the new territory He has for us, but we desperately want to smuggle a little bit of our old comfort zone along with us. But what happens when the very things we carry for security actually put our entire journey in jeopardy?