Have you experienced or seen a moment in life where people run away from things that are good or great?
Let me try to explain it before you fall deeper into the ocean of confusion.
An analogy this shall be.
I have seen and read about how men run if a girl they may have been dating used the 'LOVE' word. Of course, the explanation behind it is that the man is not ready yet for such seriousness in the relationship. What got me thinking about this was the Hindi movie, 'Bachna Ae Haseeno' about a guy who broke the heart of two girls who was serious with him when he wasn't. It's a good, interesting movie actually.
It made me wonder. What makes a person run upon hearing the word 'LOVE' even when their partner is close to perfect (I decided not to be a feminist or biased. Men are not the only ones who run away. Women do too) and love is definitely a good thing, is it not? After thinking for a while, i came up with a theory. Feel free to indulge.
A person chooses to run away from things that are good and perfect (atleast close to) because of fear. Fear that if he/she acknowledges and accepts such goodness, he may be called to change as well. Maybe, at that point, he doesn't feel he is leading his life in the right, good, great way but in a way that makes him happy and at that point, he just wants to be happy. Acknowledging, accepting and receiving something that good may feel like a call to change his life into a right, good, great thing as well which he is not ready for. It might be call for change of lifestyles, change of perspective, change of attitude. Accepting someone who loves you, and not necessarily just likes you, means there is a lot more commitment involved. There's an air of seriousness that may require change on his side which he is not ready for.
When i thought about it, i wondered if that is the reason people run from God.
I mean, He offers us a surplus of possibilities, unconditional love, mercy, 77 x 77 times of forgiveness, neverending support, gifts that would bring us to greater heights as an individual, all things good and perfect and we prefer to run away from Him. Even if we deny that and say we are not running away from Him, we must admit that we rather keep a safe distance from Him, like we don't mind liking Him but we kind of mind loving Him. We don't mind having Him in our life as long as we don't have to do things that are uncomfortable for us.
To come to think of it, i feel that we run for the same reason as i mentioned earlier. We run because we fear that if we acknowledge, accept and start receiving His love and blessings, we might be obliged to do good, great, perfect things that He calls us to do. We like the way we are living our life right now and we fear that accepting His love might be a call for a change in our lifestyle that we are clearly not ready for. So, we run and keep a safe distance. A distance that allows us to still receive His mercy and blessings when we need it and still enables us to avoid feeling guilty when we might do the not-exactly-the-right-thing.
We run from good things because we fear what it can do to us and what it might call us to do because we are very much happy where we are.
Is that logical?
Let me try to explain it before you fall deeper into the ocean of confusion.
An analogy this shall be.
I have seen and read about how men run if a girl they may have been dating used the 'LOVE' word. Of course, the explanation behind it is that the man is not ready yet for such seriousness in the relationship. What got me thinking about this was the Hindi movie, 'Bachna Ae Haseeno' about a guy who broke the heart of two girls who was serious with him when he wasn't. It's a good, interesting movie actually.
It made me wonder. What makes a person run upon hearing the word 'LOVE' even when their partner is close to perfect (I decided not to be a feminist or biased. Men are not the only ones who run away. Women do too) and love is definitely a good thing, is it not? After thinking for a while, i came up with a theory. Feel free to indulge.
A person chooses to run away from things that are good and perfect (atleast close to) because of fear. Fear that if he/she acknowledges and accepts such goodness, he may be called to change as well. Maybe, at that point, he doesn't feel he is leading his life in the right, good, great way but in a way that makes him happy and at that point, he just wants to be happy. Acknowledging, accepting and receiving something that good may feel like a call to change his life into a right, good, great thing as well which he is not ready for. It might be call for change of lifestyles, change of perspective, change of attitude. Accepting someone who loves you, and not necessarily just likes you, means there is a lot more commitment involved. There's an air of seriousness that may require change on his side which he is not ready for.
When i thought about it, i wondered if that is the reason people run from God.
I mean, He offers us a surplus of possibilities, unconditional love, mercy, 77 x 77 times of forgiveness, neverending support, gifts that would bring us to greater heights as an individual, all things good and perfect and we prefer to run away from Him. Even if we deny that and say we are not running away from Him, we must admit that we rather keep a safe distance from Him, like we don't mind liking Him but we kind of mind loving Him. We don't mind having Him in our life as long as we don't have to do things that are uncomfortable for us.
To come to think of it, i feel that we run for the same reason as i mentioned earlier. We run because we fear that if we acknowledge, accept and start receiving His love and blessings, we might be obliged to do good, great, perfect things that He calls us to do. We like the way we are living our life right now and we fear that accepting His love might be a call for a change in our lifestyle that we are clearly not ready for. So, we run and keep a safe distance. A distance that allows us to still receive His mercy and blessings when we need it and still enables us to avoid feeling guilty when we might do the not-exactly-the-right-thing.
We run from good things because we fear what it can do to us and what it might call us to do because we are very much happy where we are.
Is that logical?
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