Running from Hard

From the series Never Going Back

Jacob’s natural reaction when things got hard was to run. To run from difficult encounters and decisions and
ultimately, to run from what God has been calling him to. But one night, Jacob stopped running. And on that
night, he removed every distraction that had kept him from the hard encounter he needed to have with God
and moved from running from God to wrestling with God. It was that night when Jacob willingly stepped
into the hard thing in front of him that God opened His eyes to the calling before him. We’ve been given an
opportunity in this season to remove every distraction and wrestle with God through our doubt, our fear, and
our laziness and to invite him to move in our lives like never before. As a church, we are never going back to
running from hard, instead we willingly remove from our lives what is keeping us from fully experiencing
God. We surrender to hard and trust that when we do that, God makes it holy ground.