Elephant and Chain Principle

I was looking through some pictures earlier for my new website and came across a shot of an elephant’s leg chained to a stake. I heard long ago that when elephants are young the masters chain them to stakes to keep them from running off. However when they get older they remove the chain but the elephant doesn’t run off. The elephant doesn’t run off because it can’t but because it doesn’t think that it can’t. That applies to us humans too. So often we hold onto perceived chains that were put there by our parents, teachers, our own self talk, etc. Even after we begin a life of recovery, we have been saved and redeemed by Christ we hold on to our chain. How many times have you begged God to take away the bondage when in fact it is you that are holding onto the broken chains????

Blessings…..