I watched this amazing documentary on The Learning Channel a while back about a Moroccan woman whose fetal baby died in her womb at 7 months and remained there for 46 years after that. 
She was afraid (of dealing with the death of her child? Of the danger or pain that she would have to go through?) so she just left the baby there, because the fear had left her paralyzed and unable to act. Eventually, which was 46 years later, the calcified baby had to be removed, and she inevitably had to confront that which she was unable to nearly half a century earlier.
It’s like the story of Jonah: whose running and bucking at God didn’t change what God required of him, it only interrupted his obedience and growth. He was only postponing the inevitable.
Some people run from ministries, friendships, jobs, and places because of hurt feelings and disappointment, only to get their feelings hurt the next time, and be disappointed at the next and the next place, because they never stopped and learned what God wanted them to learn and they never became the people God intended them to be.
I’m starting to think that the circumstances in life (good or bad) are nearly irrelevant when compared to being a submissive student under the master teacher (regardless of the circumstances). He says that if we take his yoke upon us and let him teach us, then we will find rest for our souls. I think this means that while we will never find real peace striving to make are circumstances the best they can be by avoiding and running from the unpleasant, that his controversial training methods, and the laws of his kingdom, will be like honey to our lips, if we will but submit to them.
