The Elephant & The Rope

The Elephant and the Rope

"As my friend was passing the elephants, he suddenly stopped, confused by the fact that these huge creatures were being held by only a small rope tied to their front leg. No chains, no cages. It was obvious that the elephants could, at anytime, break away from the ropes they were tied to but for some reason, they did not. My friend saw a trainer nearby and asked why these beautiful, magnificent animals just stood there and made no attempt to get away.

"Well,” he said, “when they are very young and much smaller we use the same size of rope to tie them and, at that age, it’s enough to hold them. As they grow up, they are conditioned to believe they cannot break away. They believe the rope can still hold them, so they never try to break free.” My friend was amazed. These animals could at any time break free from their bonds but because they believed they couldn’t, they were stuck right where they were."

- Jeanne Hutchinson

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It's one thing to restrain and control animals to make them safer by conditioning them to believe that they are powerless, and that this is the only life available to them. It's quite another story when people do that to other people for their own gain.

Spiritual warfare is real.

The mind is a battlefield.

“Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good.”

‭‭Romans‬ ‭12‬:‭9‬ ‭NKJV