Remove the Barriers By this, then, will Jacob’s guilt be atoned for, and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: When he makes all the altar stones to be like limestone crushed to pieces, no Asherah poles or incense altars will be left standing. — Isaiah 27:9 In essence, Isaiah was saying get rid of anything standing between you and God. We all have our hang-ups. We are all born with shortcomings. Our job is to remove the barriers that separate us from God. For some of us it might be a tendency to get angry. For another person, it might be a harmful addiction. For another person, it might be a false belief or a leftover fear that no longer serves us. Still, for others, it might be an attachment to material wealth, honor, power, or any of the other many obstacles in our walk with God. We need to lift these things off us and out of our lives. We need to grind them up and destroy them. Moses encountered God at the burning bush. What’s the first thing that God instructed him? “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground” (Exodus 3:5). There are many ways to understand this command, and here is one of them: God was telling Moses — and all of us — to remove anything that separates us from Him. We are standing on holy ground – ground ripe for miracles and holiness. The only thing it will take to fully activate the holiness of our lives is to let go of anything holding us back from God. What’s keeping you from God? What’s holding you back from being your best? Remove the obstacles and break through the barriers, so that like Moses, you might come close to God and merit the privilege of doing His work on the holy ground of our lives. Take away the obstacles between you and God, and activate your best life yet.
Posted on: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 23:39:35 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015