When life
Tries to drape
Your heart with discouragement
Don’t play the same tape
Over and over in your mind.
Never stop searching
Until you find
The way of escape.

A closed heart is an escape room. The purpose of an escape room isn’t to make yourself comfortable with it. It’s to get out and to get to safety as soon as possible.

The most important escape room is in your mind. Escape from the fears, fallacies, and fantasies of false feelings, thoughts, and desires. We humans need a rousing inner belief that we will win in order to inspire us to escape from the mental and emotional escape rooms that are holding us in bondage.

When your heart is hard you’re not living in a comfort zone. You’re ignoring the ticking clock of a dangerous, real-life escape room. People take escape room games seriously and give their best to beat the clock, however, when it comes to escaping from their sin they too often sit back and milk it for pleasure and comfort while ignoring its dangers.

The clues about how to escape from the bondage of sin and darkness are found in the Bible. If people would go after those clues the way they race the clock to search for clues in an escape room, they’d be celebrating their freedom every day!

The clock is ticking in the escape room of your heart. If you don’t find the way out of the sin that has shut it down before you die, you’ll be forever trapped in its bondage. Follow the living Jesus into freedom while you still can!

Make more room in your heart and mind for Jesus. Escape from all your inner distractions that hinder His Spirit and hold Him back. The living Jesus is the Light. He’s the Way out of darkness. Escape into heart-to-heart intimacy with Him.

To escape the room
Of self-obsession
Surrender your life
To Christ’s possession.