If there's one thing I've come to dislike about myself, it's how easily I retreat into myself when hurt. I was thinking about that during my drive to work this morning. If the right weak spot is hit, it just takes one blow to cause immense devastation. Where I don't feel like eating, hate music, am lethargic, and just want to be alone. Crazy.
God doesn't call us to deal with our pain like that, though. He calls us to give it up to him, "for His yoke is easy and His burden is light". He isn't asking me to inflict this on myself. When stuff like that goes down and people run away from their problems without giving them up to the Lord, I can't help but wonder if maybe deep down some part of them feels like they deserve this pain. Hmm hmm hmm.
I will end this with a quote from Stef Chappell, the area director of Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship. "There is no sanctification in isolation." Aka, hiding from all of this is not going to bring you (or me) any closer to the goal of being more like Jesus.
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