Put A Sock In It

We use God’s mighty weapons, not worldly weapons, to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments. We destroy every proud obstacle that keeps people from knowing God. We capture their rebellious thoughts and teach them to obey Christ.    2 Corinthians 10:4-5

With all this cold weather and the nuisance snowfalls, I got a pair of boots out, and to my surprise, they didn’t fit! My feet hadn’t grown, they weren’t swollen, the boots hadn’t shrunk, so what was going on? I finally put my hand down into the boot and there was the answer, not just one, but two pair of socks! As I began to laugh, I got the answer to something I had been praying about as my foot slipped into it freely into the boot. My life was like those boots, I wasn’t seeing the “abundant life”, not because He wasn’t there with everything I needed, but because I couldn’t receive them.

In a subtle, but yet very effective way the enemy had “stuffed” my mind with all sorts of wrong thinking and thoughts. And this time, (yes, sad to say he’s done this before) it was keeping me stuck in the past. I was so stuck there I couldn’t see anything but where I was and what was right in front of me. The devil had put an entire pack of socks in my life! How could I have not seen this!?

It was like a Damascus Road experience, like scales literally falling off my spiritual eyes. I began to pull out those socks one pair at a time and began to deal with what they were hindering in my life. It wasn’t easy because the enemy just wanted to keep pushing those “socks” back down. But I pulled out two of my favorite verses, Genesis 50:20 and Romans 8:28 and kept meditating on them and using them every time the enemy wanted to put a sock back in, I would tell him “you put a sock in it!” And I stopped listening to his voice and instead listened to the voice of Savior and Friend Jesus. It is still an ongoing process, but I can see and hear Him clearly once again I can receive all the good things Jesus wants to give me. So the next time the enemy wants to tell you a lie, I encourage you to tell him to “put a sock in it!”