Okay, think with me. Can you imagine what it would be like if, say perhaps while filling your car with gasoline, someone approached you with a gun and took you hostage? Can you fathom for a second the blur of confusion which might be an obvious jolt to your system? Try to imagine the surprise, the uncertainty of the next few minutes, and even the unexplainable imposed threat.
You have just been taken hostage by a stranger who now wishes to commandeer your life!
I submit a shocking thought. The person who likely victimizes us, freezes us in fear and takes us hostage (in repetitive fashion) is my(our)self. We brandish our own weapon and we aim it directly at ourselves and scream, Freeze! From the dimensions of panic and fear...we do exactly that.
Have we said to our advising friends, cheering relatives, and our supportive neighbors all around, Freeze!? Have we scuttled their words of encouragement toward directional adjustment because we have taken over ourselves under the hostigetical guise of fear? Rather than developing an ability to loosen up, to step out, have we frozen in our tracks; at least in our thinking patterns? Of course, in the process we've thrown our hands up for we just arrested...ourselves.
Individually, we likely have made key decisive moves to take ourselves hostage. We renamed it protection. Protectionary custody sounds better? Protectionary Custody leads to self-management. Self-management leads to the self takeover.
We are still holding ourselves hostage. Life isn't passing us by under these conditions. It's more. Life can't look our way; it can't find us because we've gone into hiding. This is the design and purpose of the Ultimate Hostage Takeover.
The takeover, however, is taken over from what? The glorious leadership of a very active, quite participatory God has been quenched and we, now, drive the bus. We believe we are at the CONTROLS. The Ultimate Hostage Takeover doesn't usually come from others. Oh, it certainly can...and does. But mainly, we arrest ourselves. And...this isn't necessary. Furthermore, it must stop.
We've been called to life and life abundantly at that. Shall we dare step into this zone today?
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