The Ultimate Exodus by Danielle Strickland

Author:Danielle Strickland [Strickland, Danielle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: RELIGION / Christian Life / Personal Growth
Publisher: The Navigators
Published: 2017-05-03T04:00:00+00:00

The Geographical Cure

The geographical cure is famous as a means of escape. And escape is what people think they need to be free. Most of us, apart from folks who are trapped in external conditions of slavery, are not “kept” in our enslavements. They control us only insofar as we allow them to control us. Still, we think our external circumstances are the primary cause of our internal enslavements. The lie of the geographical cure is that if you only move to a different place, you will find a different, better reality. People do this all the time, in my experience. They keep moving to different places, thinking that will change their internal reality. If you are caught in old patterns, you should simply move to a new town, country, job, school, church; then everything will be different, right? Wrong.

The geographical cure never addresses the core problem: You can’t run away from yourself.

G. K. Chesterton once wrote a response in a newspaper to a writer who asked, “What’s wrong with the world?” His answer was, “I am.” The trouble with the world is you. Until you stop running away from yourself, you can’t get free. We see this with Moses, on the run from his past, his circumstances, his failures; we see him confronted by God in the desert many years later. Finally, Moses has to come to reconcile himself to himself. He cannot run away from his own life. He has to own it. And then, after the confrontation with God, Moses starts running to something instead of running away from things. He starts to head out with a purpose, with deep intention.

Are you running to something? Or are you running away? If you are tempted to believe that geography is your deepest problem, you are believing a lie. Our journey isn’t defined by our geography. It’s defined by us.

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