What does it mean to be unhindered? To define this word, first we must define what it means to be hindered. To hinder : to create difficulties for someone or something, resulting in delay or obstruction. So to be UNhindered would be the opposite of that. It would mean to be free or to be unrestrained or not held back.
When I think of someone being hindered, I imagine them in a maze trying to get to a desired destination and at every turn they are met with a wall, a blockade. It doesn’t matter which way they turn they are stuck.
Have you ever been stuck?
You can’t turn back. You can’t move to the left or to the right without something breaking or something being pulled out of place. Forward isn’t an option. So you just sit. You wait. Stuck. As you wait you sink deeper and deeper into apathy as hope is lost for movement and progress.
This is where I found myself about a year ago : Stuck. I knew that movement was on the horizon, but there wasn’t anything I could do to move the starting date up. I was stuck. I was suffocating.
Over the last couple of months I have felt the bars of hindrance slowly lower. Each day God is taking down the walls that are keeping me from running free toward the destination, not that I have for myself, but the one that God has planned for me.
I have run into a few walls over the last month that, in the past, I have tried to break down myself, and now I find myself tripping over the ruins. Yes, the wall might be gone, but I’m left to climb over the pile of bricks left behind. Having taken it upon myself to take the wall down, I left it undone. Incomplete. Not only did I leave it undone but I buried the light of God under the rubble. The more walls I, myself, broke down, the darker things became.
To be UNhindered.
What does this mean for me?
So, Right now it means letting God’s light glow from under the rubble of the walls. It means digging through the sharp, dirty bricks in order to find the God’s warm, inviting, healing, restoring light.
I hope to one day be a beacon of light in the darkest corners. I can’t be a beacon of light if the light in me is being snuffed out by each new wall I take down on my own.
Let your light shine
Under My Skin 