In following up to my last month’s article, I want to ask, did you burn a bridge back to your past sin(s)? Maybe, if you are like I was, you still have some more bridges to burn. Congratulations, if you have or have started! God will indeed bless your decision to not go back. If you are sitting on the opposite side of the bridge from all you have known and the path ahead is a foreign land, don’t feel alone. Others have been where you are and we can learn from them, how to find our way through the unknown wilderness ahead. I believe a great example to follow is Israel’s exodus from Egyptian bondage to the promise land. Addiction or any habitual sin can be and eventually does become a bondage that is hard to break free from.
When Israel broke free and walked away from their oppression and bondage, they had a tendency to want to go back. All they knew was back there, even if it was bondage, they were cautious and fearful of the unknown that was ahead. They knew how to get along and survive in bondage but not in freedom. God brought them to a place that is similar to the bridge I wrote about last month, only in their story it was a sea that they could not cross. With the Egyptian Pharoah and his army storming down on a defenseless people, cornered, with their back to the sea, they cried out that it would have been better to stay in bondage than to die out h ...
