Oh, how I wish
I had wings like a dove;
then I would fly away and rest!
Psalm 55:6
Have you ever wanted to just fly away?
You're not the first.
David was being hunted again. Persecution is the context of this Psalm. Despair is David's condition. And rest was his goal. He just wanted to escape.
How do you escape? Some watch TV. Some shop. Some play Candy Crush, while others try to get totally lost in hobbies.
Some run to a bar and drink, drowning their sorrow in a scotch bottle.
Others run to the refrigerator and eat, burying their discomfort in comfort food.
I knew a woman once who read seven novels a week -- fiction was apparently safer than reality.
How do you escape? Productively or destructively? Or do you really ... sometimes ... just want to fly away?
Re-read today's verse. What was David's reason for wanting to fly away? He wanted rest.
Isn't that why we all want to fly away? We want rest from our burdens and relief from our sorrows. Peace is a form of rest -- an escape from life's pressures and anxieties.
Do you want to fly away? Do you want real peace and rest? It won't come from the escapes of TV or a scotch bottle. It comes from flying to the destination that David-the-Psalmist flew to.
David put it this way: "22 Give your burdens to the LORD, and he will take care of you. He will not permit the godly to slip and fall."
Jesus put it this way: "Come to me all who are weary and carrying heavy burdens and I will give you rest" (Mt 11:28).
In Christ's Love,
a guy who wants a
window seat on the
flight to deeper faith
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