"Is there something in your past that you think you can’t get away from?"

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The Ringling Brothers Circus invited some people from the Sarasota area to visit at its winter quarters in Venice. The visitors passed by the elephant area as they came in by the performers' entrance,. Someone noticed that the ropes around the elephants’ feet weren’t tied to anything and pointed out this apparent oversight to the handler.

"Oh, don’t worry," the handler said. "We never tie them up. We just tie a rope around their leg and drop it, and they think they’re tied up."

Around our farm, we’ve noticed the same thing with some horses. We put a halter on them with the lead rope attached, drop it on the ground, and they’ll never move. We call it ground-tying.

Maybe you think those elephants and horses aren’t very bright. But what do you imagine you’re ground-tied to? Something in your past that you think you can’t get away from? When the truth is there’s nothing holding you back but you?

Ask God to release your ground-tying, to set you free as you listen to life and make a life, not just a living today.

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