Flee To God

As I was reading the Book of Hebrews this morning, I noticed with new interest the phrase, “we who have fled to Him for refuge”.  I remember that early morning in October of 2017 when we received a call from our neighbor Jill, alerting us to the Tubbs Fire in Santa Rosa.  She told me Santa Rosa is an inferno, and she couldn’t have been more accurate with that description.  It motivated us to quickly move into action and evacuate, I don’t know about you friends, but I want to run with towards Jesus every day with a similar urgency.  I need his strength every moment of every day.   I want to make the pattern of my life to “flee” to Him, regardless if the day seems mundane and ordinary or it is catastrophic.

Most of the time I think we all want to portray an image of self-reliance, but it is becoming abundantly clear to me that as time marches on in this weird, disturbing time in the history of mankind it is good to recognize we are extraordinarily needy for counsel, comfort and refuge. 

 ^“In the same way God, in His desire to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable nature of His purpose, intervened and guaranteed it with an oath,  so that by two unchangeable things [His promise and His oath] in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled [to Him] for refuge would have strong encouragement and indwelling strength to hold tightly to the hope set before us.  This hope [this confident assurance] we have as an anchor of the soul [it cannot slip and it cannot break down under whatever pressure bears upon it]—a safe and steadfast hope that enters within the veil [of the heavenly temple, that most Holy Place in which the very presence of God dwells],”  Hebrew 6:17-19 The Amplified Bible

I read a book recently, in which the author described his friend as “fastened to God.” 

May we always be fastened to God.