No Escape

Sometimes I just want to run.  You know?  Get away from everything.  Get away from work.  Get away from phones.  Get away from deadlines and expectations.  Get away from people.

Sometimes I even feel like I want to get away from God.

Don't ask me why.  I don't know.  I just...do. 

We all have our places don't we?  Private, public, secluded or busy it doesn't matter.  I've even found myself retreating into my thoughts.  Physically I'm there, mentally I'm gone.  Ok now stop laughing.  But you know what I meant right?  There are places in our own thoughts that we escape from everything.  Places we hide when we're scared or sad or just tired.

Here's one thing I have found though....

I can't escape God.

It seems like everywhere I go, He's there waiting.  He's even in the places that I try to go to get away from Him.  A poet-king once asked the question "Where can I go from your Spirit?  Or where can I flee from your presence?" 

His answer was "nowhere."

Even in the darkest recesses in our thoughts, souls and minds we can't hide from Him.  He is a God who searches us and knows us.   Why?  Because He is emphatically in love with us.  He made us.  And it's often in the times that we are absolutely trying to hide from Him that are the most important times for Him to be there.  He's just waiting for you to look to Him.

If you feel like God can't reach you where you're at, check out Psalm 139 sometime.