The voices of past trauma, insecurity, and doubt. What if you are the mountain standing in your own way?
What you believe about God and yourself carries more power than many people realize.
Lately, I’ve been thinking about Lot’s wife. She was turned into a pillar of salt because she did the one thing she was told not to she looked back while being led forward. I can’t help but wonder: What exactly was it that she couldn’t let go of? What was she so attached to that made her turn around?
Was it shame? Did she believe she didn’t deserve a second chance? The city she left behind was so wicked that God saw fit to destroy it completely. Could it be that she had become so comfortable in dysfunction that she believed that was all life had to offer her? I think whatever caused her to turn back was a stronghold one that may have gone undetected until the very moment of her deliverance.
One of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do was let go of things that no longer served me. To walk away from people and situations that I knew added no value to my life. Letting go is difficult because we attach meaning to memories, and those memories can trap us in cycles of chaos, dysfunction, or simply fruitlessness.
Looking back on my journey, I realize many of the things I clung to were chains. Chains that held me back. It wasn’t until I made the conscious decision to break free from those chains that I began to see the actual fruit of release.
So, what causes us to hold on to things that are hurting us?
As I always say, we are spiritual beings having a human experience. And forces are working against us, fighting to keep us from becoming who God has called us to be. The enemy often uses comfort, fear, and ignorance as weapons to trap us in bondage. As long as you’re comfortable, you won’t see the need to change even if the situation isn’t healthy. That kind of contentment leads to stagnation.
And fear? Fear is the greatest killer of them all. It’s false evidence appearing real. Fear can convince you that something harmless is dangerous. It paralyzes progress. It can make you just like Lot’s wife, a pillar of salt frozen in place, unable to move forward because the stronghold of fear keeps you chained.
But God says He has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind. That means there is an expectation from the Kingdom of God: that we move forward, no matter what tries to hold us back.
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