When they’re babies weighing a few hundred pounds you can put a chain around their leg so they don’t wander off. The chain is too big for the baby elephant to break. If they try too hard, it injures their leg. They learn they can’t get away and that trying will hurt.
And they live like that the rest of their lives. Even when they weigh 10,000 pounds the same chain will hold them, even though they could easily break it and run free.
It’s not that you want to be chained. It’s fear of what you’re convinced will happen if you try. Live that way long enough and you get used to it. It’s not so bad. It’s resignation. Hopelessness. The comfort zone. You don’t know when it happened but your spark got snuffed.
Fan into flame the gift of God…for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control – 2 Timothy 1.6-7
If you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey – Romans 6.16
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