Blogging Again... Running

It is funny how we go through seasons in life and I have been in a season of NOT BLOGGING:)  I am excited about getting back to writing out my thoughts on a blog again and what I feel God is placing in my heart.  Today I have been working diligently on a new series that I am writing on the book of Jonah.  I am very excited about this series because I believe that so many of us "myself included" run from God in one way or another in different areas of our lives.  I focused on Jonah 1 today and from where I stand, it is almost humorous to think that Jonah thought he could run from God.  This makes me think of my daughter Cate and when we play hide and go seek, she will run into a room and back into a corner covering her eyes.  The whole time she is laughing and making more than enough noise to make her presence known:)..  I think this is a similar picture of how effective our "RUNNING FROM GOD" is.  We think we are running or hiding, when the reality is He is RIGHT THERE looking down saying DUH, I see you.  His call on us follows us wherever we go.  My senior year in high-school, my youth pastor asked me to step up and be a leader in our student ministry at Stonewall FBC and I told her "sure", after attending this church for the last 4 years I ran and never set foot in there again, I RAN from what I felt God calling me to do, I RAN from my fear of inadequacy and I RAN from someone believing in me.  Now 14 years later and 13 years in the ministry later I realize just how foolish my running was.  I don't know what God is calling you to today but I pray that you won't run from it but rather run to it and embrace it with everything you have and do it to the best of your ability for the Glory of our risen Savior Jesus Christ...