When to Run for the Hills
I witnessed a hightail it scene in the most unusual place. In downtown Chicago I noticed an old boy giving the cafe cashier a tough time. Seemed to me he refused to pay for his supper on some trumped-up excuse. Shouts and curses flew in both directions. All of a sudden, a police car pulled in up front.
The man bolted through the swinging door into the kitchen. When the policeman entered, “the cook yelled, “He hightailed it out the back door.” I don’t know if they caught the man or if he did anything wrong. But it did make for a little excitement.
Hightail It Meaning
Personally, I doubt any of those Chicagoans ever saw a cow raise his tail and take off on a dead run down a canyon or draw. Hightailing is a good cowboy word used by many. Of course, these days it’s employed more than for livestock. It means to depart suddenly and unceremoniously. But hightailing doesn’t always indicate admission of guilt.
In the days of the Old West, when someone hightailed away from a band of cutthroat bushwhackers or an arroyo swollen with a flash flood, that made common sense. The Bibles says sometimes we need to spiritually hightail it. Flee from sexual immorality (1 Corinthians 6:18) or idolatry (1 Corinthians 10:14) or greed over money (1 Peter 5:2) or evil desires of youth (2 Timothy 2:22). But the truth is, we often dally around.
Flee All Temptation
When temptation looms, we stick around to see which way the tree’s going to fall. Then, we get tangled up in the brush. I suppose we don’t take the danger of sin serious enough.
You may happen to see an 800-1,000-pound animal peacefully chewing its cud. Then, suddenly it points its tail to the sky and bolts across the prairie at 20-30 miles an hour. You’ll get the full idea how God wants us to react in certain situations. Time to hightail it away.
Stephen Bly
Circa 1989
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