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This is one major question that each of us must answer.
Which Direction Are You Going?
by Thurman Sims
We may not understand its significance, but it is very important. In your life choices, are you running from something or running to someone? The way we answer this question will determine our motivation. Let me explain.
Some of us attend worship services, read our Bible, and meet with others because we are running FROM bad relationships, painful experiences, past hurts or confusing circumstances. It seems good at the time, but this doesn't always lead us to what we need or desire. We don't seem to be getting fulfillment. We still feel lost or bogged down. Our contentment doesn't seem to last because when we are running from something, we have no idea of our destination.
So, eventually we stop running when the threat is gone or we begin to believe things are getting better or we no longer have the passion or the will to continue the journey. Then we become stagnant.
When we are running TO someone (Our Father), we won't stop running until we find Him and we express all of our love and reverence for Him, to build our relationship with Him to its fullness through openness and honesty.
"But when he came to himself, he said, How many of my father's hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, Father I have sinned against heaven and before you." (Luke 15:17-18)
The son recognized that everything that he was missing in life was found in his father. He did not run from his issues or conditions, but to his father. The objective was not just to avoid his problems but to commune with his father. He realized that everything he desired (peace, hope and joy) was contingent on this relationship with the Father.
Which direction are you going? Are you running from something or to someone? Jesus said, "Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy leaden, and I will give you rest." (Matthew 11:28).
Stop running from your problems and situations and start running to your Father. You will find there is a BIG difference.
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