Walk Away From The Cage

My life has few strings attached and sometimes I find myself looking for a rope to reattach me to what I used to be.

It’s crazy; we want freedom and when it’s given to us by our creator the old man inside us fights to be put back in the cage.

In talking with a friend the other day I realize how much human beings really fight against freedom. We are like an animal in a cage and when the door is opened or a key handed to us, some of us refuse to go out the door.

Others, like me, keep looking back at the cage wondering if we should go back in.

In reviewing the story of Lot and his wife in the Bible, God told them not to look back at the city they were leaving. He didn’t tell them why they shouldn’t take a peak He only said not to or you’ll die.

I wonder that God didn’t know the ease with which each one of us can slip back into our old lives, our old selves, our old traps and His warning is to keep our heads up and our focus on Him, not the next thing or the past.