Ghosting God - week 1 | What are you running from?

Have you ever been ghosted? Now, ghosted is like a new term, okay, but it's an ancient thing.

And being ghosted, you've never heard that before, is when all of a sudden you're in a relationship with somebody and a friendship or whatever, and the conversation's flowing and the texts are coming back and everything's all good, and all of a sudden it goes silent.

And you don't know why.

That's what's called being ghosted.

And it's not really about communication, not really about your phone.

It's really about an issue of the heart.

Because when you ghost someone, you don't respond to them, not because of a communication thing, but because there's something going on in that relationship and you can't face it.

So rather than deal with it, what you and I do is we ghost someone.

Now, if you've ever been ghosted, it's a horrible experience.

But first, let's be real about it.

We have probably also ghosted others, right? And often when we feel we're being ghosted, that's when what we do is that we ghost back.

And that's what we're going to look at.

Because here's the truth.

Yes, that happens with individuals, human beings.

It also happens between us and God.

We ghost God.

God is trying to communicate with us.

And it's not a communication issue, but there's a deeper issue at stake.

And so we don't want to deal with that deeper issue.

So we ghost God.

It's a modern word, but it's an ancient habit.

And we're going to look over the next three weeks at one of the best stories in the Bible, in the Old Testament, the first part of the Bible.

And we're going to get into this.

And it's this story.

It's the story of Jonah.