Wherever You Go, There You Are

There’s and old saying that goes, “whereever you go, there you are.” it’s kinda a self-reflective statement that hopefully makes you look in the mirror and realize that if you run from your problems or refuse to deal with the issue at hand, you can’t out run them and simply move to another place, cause your problems have a way of following you, namely because often times they are inside of you. Our problems, our sin and our lack of being like God can’t be changed simply with an address change or by moving things around in our life, they have to be dealt with at the deepest parts of our being. We have to be healed at our core or the scars will simply cover up and callus us to the good that God has for our lives. I really hope that I will continually self examine my life and the parts of it to try and find my blind spots and manage around where I am weak. Also, hopefully I can find loving people that I live with who will stretch me, love me, push me, and inspire me to be more than I am, and also cover up where I am weak. That’s what the body of Christ is supposed to look like, but sadly rarely truly does. When you can look in the mirror and know who you are naked and revealed and see all the pain and self-inflicted marks that scar you there is a peace in accepting who you are and recognizing God’s ability to heal and change us at our core. Only through His great power though is there healing and restoration from ourselves, our sin and the sin other people have hurlled on us. Wholeness and peace is available if we just choose to work at it.