Hebrews 12:1Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.
i love this verse. it's becoming so real...and so beyond "just sin". what a beautiful picture! throwing off everything that holds us back, dealing with sin...and running the race marked out for us and our beautiful, courageous hearts. AND...all that surrounded by so many cheerleaders. real life is so much more than we know...so much more than culture and even the church often realize.
i've been through seasons of facing the "hinderances". hahaha...man, that could mean so many things...and sometimes things we don't want to admit are real. strategies of the enemy, direct assaults, bondages, particular family "bents", the demonic. BUT...here's the deal!!!...the beautiful offer...all that crap CAN be thrown off...
so you can run the race you were meant for!
and don't get me wrong...the battle SUCKS! and it often makes no sense in the mind...and it's often so exhausting...and the enemy of your heart will do everything he can to scare you right back into the shadows of existence.
but if you step in...HE, the lover of your heart, will meet you!
and there will be freedom.
so, if you get an invitation to throw off some of that stuff, consider that it might be god's good timing to clean house a little more...
to open doors to life in the "wide open spaces of his grace"...
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