Bury your head in the sand

“Brothers, if someone is caught in sin, you who are spiritual should restore him gently.” Galatians 6:1a

To bury your head in the sand means you are ignoring the obvious, refusing to face reality by pretending not to see it. This is often associated with the ostrich which is said to hide its head in times of trouble which is not factual. They actually outrun their predators.

It’s so difficult to have someone in your life who has a hard time facing reality. Everyone around them can see the inevitable, yet they are in denial. Rather than facing the facts and deal with the issue at hand, the situation keeps getting kicked down the road.

We are all unique, and we all deal with tasks differently. When I was in school, as soon as I got an assignment, I started working on it so I could get it done. Others procrastinate, putting things off to the last minute and then pulling an all-nighter to get it finished in time.

Throughout the ministry of Jesus, He delt with issues straight forward and promptly. The Pharisees refused to believe who Jesus was but found Him more and more difficult to ignore. In John 9, as Jesus was walking, He came across a man blind since birth. He stopped and spit on the ground to create mud and put it on the man’s eyes. He then told the man to go wash his face in the pool of Siloam.

The neat component to the story is the man had the faith to believe he would see if he obeyed Jesus. He could have thought, “How in the world is mud going make me see?” He put his faith in action and went into the pool. Not only was he physically healed but also spiritually cleansed.

Just as the Jewish leaders couldn’t avoid the fact this man who went by the name of Jesus was performing miracles, we can’t bury our heads in the sand hoping the obvious stuff in our lives will go away. We may as well rip the band-aid off and get it over with because we’re going to have to deal with it sooner or later.