Temptation to flee from reality.   

30 Apr Temptation to flee from reality.   

Faced with the challenges of life, there is always the temptation to escape reality or run away.

💥Run away from responsibility, from ourselves or even from assignments of God as Jonah did.

🎯But in the poor language of someone trying to learn English, “To where to?” He meant ‘where do you think you are going?’

🎯In 2021, we sure can run by trying to avoid challenges or reality, by going into drugs, etc, but for sure we can’t run away from ourselves.

🎯King David knew what it was like to feel hopeless and have problems that didn’t seem to have solutions.

💥In these moments he was tempted to try to run away, to escape, to “flee as a bird to your mountain” to somewhere the problems didn’t seem to exist.

💥He had every reason to feel this way.

💥Even though he generally tried to please God, problems persisted.

💥On the surface, the idea of running away seemed attractive.

💥Yet as we know, this kind of escapism only provides a temporary illusion.

💥Problems don’t go away; eventually we need to face them.

🎯The situation is tighter when we try to run away from God’s purpose for our lives.

🎯He wired each one of use for a special purpose, gave specific gifts/talents to achieve that purpose.

🎯Doing something else makes you a misfit and unhappy but also a poor achiever or even a failure.

🎯Even in the work for God, there is division of labour. There are gifted teachers, prophets, preachers, and so on.

🎯There may be limited career choices now but people have succeeded at practicing their calling alongside what circumstances force them to do.

🎯The worst case is the absolute stupidity in trying to run away from the Sovereign God – the Omniscient, Omnipresent and the Omnipotent