After a short whirlwind of a relationship, I found myself pondering on strongholds. There are many people in this world that are bound to something.
What is a stronghold?
Webster's describes it this way:
Main Entry: strong·hold Pronunciation: 'stro[ng]-"hOldFunction: noun1 : a fortified place2 a : a place of security or survival b : a place dominated by a particular group or marked by a particular characteristic
I found the second description to be quite interesting. A place of security. Isn't that what it is exactly. If we have a stronghold in our lives such as drugs, alcohol, money, people or even food...we find security in these places. A place of refuge.
I was discussing this with a friend of mine and she said that we must take these strongholds of the physical world and turn them into strongholds of righteousness....
What a concept? I saw in my mind's eye a sort of a dock, pier perhaps...and tied from this pier were different ropes each attached to different things of this world that I cling to...find security in. I saw me releasing these into the waters of the unknown. I began to wonder who was going to take care of these things that I so carefully clung to for so long. That is when I heard the Lord tell me to let these things go, that he will take care of them. So, my focus then turned to these ropes now flapping in the wind. I began to tie those up towards heaven. Turning my strongholds of this world to the strongholds of Righteouness...finding my security and my safe place in the shadows of the Almighty.
We do not have to walk in this life with "things" binding us to this world. We can set them off into the blue........
What is a stronghold?
Webster's describes it this way:
Main Entry: strong·hold Pronunciation: 'stro[ng]-"hOldFunction: noun1 : a fortified place2 a : a place of security or survival b : a place dominated by a particular group or marked by a particular characteristic
I found the second description to be quite interesting. A place of security. Isn't that what it is exactly. If we have a stronghold in our lives such as drugs, alcohol, money, people or even food...we find security in these places. A place of refuge.
I was discussing this with a friend of mine and she said that we must take these strongholds of the physical world and turn them into strongholds of righteousness....
What a concept? I saw in my mind's eye a sort of a dock, pier perhaps...and tied from this pier were different ropes each attached to different things of this world that I cling to...find security in. I saw me releasing these into the waters of the unknown. I began to wonder who was going to take care of these things that I so carefully clung to for so long. That is when I heard the Lord tell me to let these things go, that he will take care of them. So, my focus then turned to these ropes now flapping in the wind. I began to tie those up towards heaven. Turning my strongholds of this world to the strongholds of Righteouness...finding my security and my safe place in the shadows of the Almighty.
We do not have to walk in this life with "things" binding us to this world. We can set them off into the blue........
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