From Forward Day by Day
Leviticus 26:13 I am the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be their slaves no more; I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.
What weighs us down? What yokes do we carry that cause us to struggle, to stoop, only able to see the ground under our feet and not the vision before us?
Maybe it’s addiction—to alcohol, to power, to hurtful relationships, to patterns of life that burden instead of lighten our souls. Maybe it’s the heavy yoke of anger that has long since ceased to inform us and now festers, curling us inward on ourselves, making us more and more isolated.
God yearns for us to offer that burden to God so that we can stand tall, lift our heads, and see the path before us. The second step of twelve-step recovery programs based on the model of Alcoholics Anonymous says, “we came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.”
God still breaks the bars of our yokes. God still frees us. What weight in your life needs to be given to God so you can be restored?
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