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Learning to walk again.

One foot in front of the other, wobbly and nervous I begin to walk all over again. It is as if God broke my legs, legs built of my idols. These idol legs grew their muscles and dependence through my own strength. My self-reliant legs led me astray– walked me down a path that I was not intended to go. I was enslaved to my own self reliance and strength. These legs were shackled together, bound to slavery, walking a road independent of the power of the Gospel.

Thanks be to God, who rescued me. Who fractured my idol legs and unlocked the chains that bound my legs. He has come to save me from myself. The slavery of me.

My heart aches for how I have missed so much of his freedoms.

Now I am relearning to walk all over again. But this time legs unchained.

Slowly, one day at a time, he is ripping the layers apart and revealing the false teachings and philosophies that led me into slavery.

How could I think I was something better than a wretched sinner?

Grasping to understand the weight of my cold wicked heart that often cries out my demands to God.

But not one breath do I deserve. Not one pleasure am I owed.

He gave me life that I did not earn nor did I deserve.

It is by his grace he has freely given. By grace I inhale this breath, this air and enjoy the pleasures of the earth.

By grace I am saved. And by his grace I walk again.

He bid me come and die.

I lay my self-reliant chains as his feet and bid them farewell.

He has come to liberate me.

Through Jesus I learn to walk again. This time down the path of the gospel.

The path of freedom.

“Because Jesus was strong for me, I was free to be weak;

because Jesus won for me, I was free to lose;

because Jesus was someone, I was free to be a no one;

because Jesus was extraordinary, I was free to be ordinary;

because Jesus succeeded for me, I was free to fail.”  

-Tullian from the book Jesus +Nothing=everything.

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