Just a Little Addition to my Last Post.....

So in my last post I gave an analogy about feeling like I am finally able to see now and there is a gift in front of me but my hands are tied behind my back. Well, while I was re-reading this in preparation for sharing at WHOP next week, God gave me another analogy for the first analogy….. I must like analogies.

In response to my hands being tied behind my back He said this:

You are like an elephant in captivity. Now I could have stopped God right there with Him calling me an elephant and all, but He continued...thankfully :) It’s like how an elephant is trained or “domesticated”. It lives from the time it's young with its leg chained to a post. It can’t move very far or very well. After years like this, the elephant is used to its lack of mobility. It doesn’t know any different. So when the trainer unchains the elephant’s leg after years of captivity, you would think it would run and relish in its new found freedom. But it doesn’t. It stays in the same crippled state it’s been in its whole life because it doesn’t know any different. It has learned to live in captivity.
Well, turns out my hands aren’t tied at all. I am just holding them there behind my back because I’ve become so accustomed to captivity. But I’m not captive. And I need to stop acting like it.... but how? What a journey I am beginning!!