Captivity

Hey! Me again! I've been "yelled at" by my fellow bloggers that I need to write more, seeing that I'm ALWAYS hounding them to write something. All I do is carry around this laptop and say, ummm, can you blog? Have you blogged yet? You can't eat dinner until you blog!

Our chapel theme is "Reveal" and we are looking for ways God is revealing Himself in us throughout the day and what we are learning about Him and who we are in Him. We did an AMAZING thing about captivity. I have been reading in my Beth Moore Bible Study, Breaking Free, about what captivity really means. (God's kinda cool like that, bringing up the same topic all over so you finally learn the lesson) the definition is A christian is held captive by anything that hinders the abundant and effective Spirit-filled life God planned for him or her. We were instructed to put our wrists together and they would be zip tied together.We then were to go around the room and look at the things that hold us captive. Technology, sports, drugs and addictions, food, relationships, money and self image. We were to let God and ask God to break us free from the captivity we were in because of these things. Then, we were to approach the cross to have our zipties cut, and be released from captivity. So amazing.

Things I got from all of this:
1) at first you don't think the wrists are tied too tight. It feels okay, not uncomfortable. As time goes on, they seem to get tighter and the desire to be free is greater. You get frustrated and it becomes painful. Every move hurts.
2) Although you are released from the bondage, there are still marks left on your wrist from the captivity. There will always been consequences for our captivity. There will be marks left by our decisions. We will feel the affect long after we have been set free.
3) (Christin) noticed that even though her wrists were free, they kept going back to the same position of crossed. She was so use to them being like that, that they did it on their own. It will be SO easy to go back into the ways of our captivity after we are free. We need to keep going back to the cross to help us stay close to God and far away from the things that capture us.

Think on these things.

~Abby~