You Can Run But You Can't Hide

~Brandon James Scott Scholl

Callings. Everyone has one on their lives. Whether you realize your calling at a young age or when you’re an adult, you have one. That calling could be something along the lines of being a pastor to being an artist. Here’s the thing though, can you lose it? Can you completely run the other way and never fulfill a calling that God put on your life?

Now, let’s say that you are made aware of a calling that is on your life. In fact, let’s say that you’re aware of your calling that you’re supposed to be a pastor. Now, this knowledge scares you and you don’t want to be a pastor at all. So, you do whatever you can to get away from that. You attempt to accomplish this by either changing your lifestyle to drugs, sex, and breaking the law or even leaving your town, friends, or state so that you aren’t even around people who claim this about you. I guarentee that before your life is over, you’ll be a pastor.

Now, some of you reading this may not agree with this at all and I completely understand that. However, let’s look at what the bible says.

The bible says that everything is set according to God’s way and purpose.( Eph 1:11, “God always does what he plans, and that’s why he appointed Christ to choose us.” ) That basically means that whatever happens is because it’s going to work out God’s will and purpose in either someone’s life or the lives of numerous people. A good example that you can relate to right now is reading this article. Here you are reading something that you either agree with or you don’t agree with. The thing is I wrote this because I felt God putting it on my heart and it’s going to affect your life in some way. Whether that way is big or small, I have no idea. You may have a quick thought and then it be totally gone. Bottom line, however, is that it has been read by you just now and it’s now in your head.

Now, you may know someone that has been called to do something specific. That could be a family member, friend, stranger. In my current life, that would be a close family member of mine who’s running quite the other way. Now, I cannot explain how much I love this member of my family and I pray and talk to God about them all the time. In fact, there have been times where people have even wondered if he will be going to heaven or not. This person is running completely the other way and has been for quite some time. My answer to the people that question his destination is this: I know that God called him to do a form of ministry. Whether he agrees with it or not doesn’t matter. Bottom line is that God called him to do it and before he dies, he’ll accomplish that calling. I don’t know how and I don’t know why. All I know is that God has plans for him and he’s not able to run anywhere that is going to bail him out of that.

So, whether you know someone that’s in that position or you’re the person that is currently in that position and you may even be looking for a way to prove this wrong, a force is coming. It’s a force that cannot be stopped, blocked, ignored, or that you can hide from. That force is God. He is not someone that you can simply say no to and everything end for you. Just something to think about.

Royalynne (Royal Chick) Miller:

When you follow where God is calling you, you are so much happier and life just goes better and easier in the sense that you know He’s going to take care of you and keep you secure. There’s a peace you get when you are doing what God has called you to do. I know from personal experience what it feels like to run from God and what it feels like to be where God wants you and to be doing what God wants you to do. If you are doing what God has called you to I guarantee that you will feel that “peace that passes understanding” the Bible talks about.