Walls.

We all have them. Walls that keep us hidden, and walls that keep us inside. We use walls to enclose us and to protect us from the outside. Sometimes walls are good, ya’ll. Sometimes walls keep us safe…but sometimes, walls hinder us from walking out to where we are meant to go.

I have those walls. I built them up over time. I wish I didn’t have them, but I do. I have walls because of the pains and struggles in my life. Pain after pain built the walls up slowly. These walls have kept me away from people, opportunities, and places I should have gone. These walls have kept me inside a little shell I created on my own, because I didn’t want anyone to know anything about my life and what I’ve gone through. I wanted the walls to keep me safe, but they never really do.

How many people can relate to this? I can probably think of 5 people right on the top of my head who have built up these same walls in the same way that I have. We do it because we think that these walls will keep us hidden from all the many things that we believe will destroy us. Sometimes walls keep us safe, but sometimes they keep us away from where we are supposed to be.

This last month, God has encouraged me to knock down my walls. I thought I was finally getting it all together. My relationship with Jesus is the strongest it’s ever been, I have the greatest friends, and my life seems to be piecing itself together. But this last month, God spoke to me in a still quite voice and said, “you need to let go.”

What? Let go of what, God?

“You just need to let go.”

Let go of what, God? I’m following you.

“You need to break those walls. You need to let go.”

You see, God encourages us to be vulnerable; ya’ll, how are we supposed to love other people if we cannot be honest with ourselves? Or, the real question, how are we supposed to love other people if we cannot even be honest with them?

Walls sometimes keep us safe, but God encourages us to let go.

As William Shield once said, “a ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”

Xoxo,

Cameron