Have you ever felt “stuck” or maybe held captive in life? Being held captive against our will would be a most treacherous thing to happen to anyone. Yet, I declare in my first post of 2025, we are many times held captive by our own destructive thoughts and emotions!

Story Time 🐘🪢 
There was once a man who lived near an elephant camp. He would watch the animals come and go but did not pay much attention to them.

One day, as he was walking across the camp, he came across an elephant tied to a simple rope. The elephant was not in a cage or held back with thick metal chains, yet it was not moving or trying to escape.

The man asked the elephant trainer why the animal was not trying to get free. The trainer explained that the elephants came to the camp at a young age and that they used to tie them with the same ropes. These ropes were enough to prevent them from fleeing. 

Their belief system made them feel, from a young age, that escaping was not an option, and they did not attempt to break free despite growing strong in stature.

Do we find ourselves like that colossal elephant, allowing the rope to make us feel enslaved? 

We do not have to be bound by the circumstances of life! There are supernatural occurrences where the LORD can come in and do what only HE can do! He has the power over anything we may face.

Yet, even God will not come down and “get us out” when we have the ability to WALK out ourselves!

He won’t control our thoughts and emotions! He will give us a nudge, speak peace to us, and empower us. Yet, we have to make the decision — I am coming out of this captivity!

He looked at the lame man and said, 

“When Jesus noticed him lying there [helpless], knowing that he had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, ‘Do you want to get well?’” (John 5:6 AMP)

The question for the reader today is: do you want to walk out free today, or just sit there in your captivity? 

Something to think about on this Saturday morning…

Selah

2 Corinthians 10:3-5 (KJV) 
3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: 
4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds;) 
5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;