What Is In Your “B” Bag?
Do you know what a “B” bag is?
When a soldier deploys, he almost always has what is called an A bag and B bag. It is interesting to see what the soldiers will pack in their A bag and B bags. These are usually duffle bags and will usually be marked with an A or B along with other unit information for identification purposes for when the duffle shows up along with a thousand other bags in some foreign country!
Now they also have a layout, and the items are usually inventoried by their boss as to what is in the A and B bags. They have what is called a packing list and they all have to have everything on this list. There are the essentials like maybe in the A bag, three pair socks, under wear and a couple uniforms along with wet weather gear and depending on the time of year maybe cold weather gear. If they are going on a long deployment in the summertime, then the cold weather gear would probably go in the B bag. So now, you get the idea.
Now what you won't find on the list is their wants. You can learn a lot about a person by looking in their B bag! The A bag is usually packed full of the essentials on the packing list and nothing more. But in the B bag, you will find things like maybe a couple cartons of cigarettes, or a couple rolls of dip. These are things that they “need” but the packing list will not have them listed.
You won’t find radio on the packing list, or a television, not even a portable CD player or DVD player.
There are other things they would like to make room for like their favorite reading material whatever that may be. In today’s age many privates on up to senior officers, have their own laptop computers and that also will not be on the packing list.
In our spiritual life, I like to call the A bag, our “Acting” bag which is what we show everyone when they are watching!
Like our Attention or attentive behavior while a brother or sister talks to us although inside our B bag (our Belief Bag) which is what we really are like on the inside we don’t care what they are talking about.
You can tell a lot about yourself by what you have in your own B bags.
Is there a god in your B bag?
You see whatever you turn to that takes you from God Almighty can or already has become your god and has you in bondage right now!
What do you have in your B Bag? Many of us may have our B Bag filled with anger, unforgiveness, hatred, or perverse thoughts and acts. From time to time, we all need to lay out our B bag and do an inventory! Examine the things you are carrying in your B bag today!
1 Corinthians 11:28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
Once again Brothers and Sisters in Christ, examine yourselves now. You don’t need an NCOIC (supervisor) to do this inventory.
This is between you and God himself, Amen?
If you have something in your B bag that is drawing you from God, ask him to help you now.
Lay that piece of bondage at the alter right now in your prayer and let God deal with it, amen?
I pray you have a much lighter B Bag today and start filling it with Godly things.
Have a blessed day
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