Castles or Prisons

I didn’t want some petty, inferior brand of righteousness that comes from keeping a list of rules when I could get the robust kind that comes from trusting Christ—God’s righteousness. - Philippians 3:9, The Message

The apostle Paul thought he had religion all figured out. Turns out, he’d built a rigid set of beliefs that did not serve him or others. He had to let it go.

How many times do we need to go on that same journey of conversion? This is how one author describes it. See if something here really strikes you and talk with Jesus about it.

We learn through pain that some of the things we thought were castles turn out to be prisons, and we desperately want out, but even though we built them, we can’t find the door. Yet maybe if you ask God for help in knowing which direction to face, you’ll have a moment of intuition. Maybe you’ll see at least one next right step you can take. —Anne Lamott, Help, Thanks, Wow