Don't Keep on Hiding (Jer 21-23)

"He who stays in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, but he who goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who are besieging you shall live and shall have his life as a prize of war." -Jeremiah 21:9

I feel like God is telling us, "Don't keep on hiding, but go out in surrender and be free." Sometimes we avoid the harsh reality out there by keep ourselves hiding and say, "peace, peace". We are hiding ourselves from the problem that exists, and we ended up dying inside. We become dull. We become dry for our spirit withers. Pale. Nothingness. Dying.

That's what may happen to us when we are afraid of any new changes. We stayed instead of going out in obedience and let Him move us wherever He wants us to go, to keep us alive. When He moves us, it is up to us to move with Him or stay and start dying like how Israel who refused to go out and surrender shall die. But we may die an internal death while Israel shall die an external death.

How do we become alive again? We got to get ourselves to our knee, or to lie down flat on the floor, or into a praying mantis posture to pray. Whatever works for you, whatever works for me! We just need to tell Him that we are dying internally and that we need Him again. If we suddenly feel like we want to worship, to dance, to do any weird ways to worship, just do it and let those love be released to Him. Then after that, we claim that we are alive internally and keep our inner flame going by our self-discipline by reading Bible daily and worship Him in your heart daily in many different ways. While we are being restored in our relationship with Him, we go out and face the harsh reality with Peace and keep on fighting.

"Sing like you know the words; dance like no one's watching; and love like it's never going to hurt."