Time to Cut the Cord

 

During my time with the the Lord today, I heard clearly , “IT’S TIME TO CUT THE CORD” When a baby is born, they are still attached to their life in the womb via the umbilical cord. There comes a time that the cord stops pulsing with blood and it turns white. It’s value and use is finished. And then the cord is cut and the child is entirely free of its pre-birth life. All that’s left is the healing where the cord once was…and growth. As Christians, we are born again, but we can still be “attached” to our old way of living. Old ways of being, old ways of relationship, old ways of protection, old ways of provision. We hesitate to “cut the cord“ because for a little while at least, it seems that the cord is still pulsing with valuable and important resources. But there comes a time when it’s not only healthy and safe, but necessary… to cut the cord once and for all. This is certainly a personal word for me right now, and maybe it is for you too. Maybe you’re sensing a change of season for your life, and it’s feeling a little uncertain and scary to cut free of the old one. I want to lovingly and gently encourage you to spend time with the Lord and ask him if there’s anything that needs to be cut free so that you can move into the new. “Cutting” might sound scary or painful, but he is precise and utterly gentle. You can trust yourself to him

I also believe that this is a word for the broader church, which is also entering into a new season of life. The old ways we are accustomed to and comfortable with will not only not serve us any longer, but they will become a hindrance to the newness that the Lord is calling us into. Will we allow Jesus to be Lord of his church even if it makes us a little uncomfortable sometimes? Will we allow him to prune and shape the church according to his pleasures instead of according to our comfort and preferences? Will we surrender to his plan, or will we hold tight to our beloved traditions and programs? Cut the cord, Lord. Cut me free of anything that isn’t of you. Cut away any old thing that you do not want me to depend on any longer. Cut away my good to make room for your great.