'BE COMFORTABLE, BEING UNCOMFORTABLE'

One of my coaches once taught me something that has been engraved in me, practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect. So practice making your practice perfect. What I mean by that is challenge the way you think, the way you behave and challenge everything around you. Acts 17: 11, "These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched scripture daily, whether those things were so." When you change the way you think you will change the way you view things but, we must be open to new interpretations. 1 Corinthians 13:12, "For now we see through a glass, darkly." Our culture and our way of living is making us view things the way the enemy wants us to view them. We must rely on God and his word to guide us through the fog, just as we cannot see beyond our headlights when we drive we keep the faith that we will make it home.

We must realize that in order to reach our full potential we must get outside of our comfort zone. No one ever did anything great being comfortable. So I say to you all learn to be comfortable in an uncomfortable setting. The more comfort the more success you have the less you need God. People will do anything to avoid pain and conflict but pain and conflict are the only things that can strengthen us. James says consider it pure joy to go through trials. I have been a personal trainer for five years now and I can tell you the people that get results are the people that deny themselves of their fleshly desires and seek challenges on a daily basis. In ancient Israel they would have a daily sacrifices at the temple, one in the morning and one in the evening. How often do we sacrifice to God? It does not have to be animal sacrifices, it can be as simple as making time to pray and read his word daily. It can be taking time to listen to someone, to help someone, or to show kindness to an enemy. How often do we pass our days selfishly thinking only a few more hours till I get to go home, or only a couple of more days till I get to do what I want on the weekend. I have found through my relationships with others that we all desire more in life yet we settle for comfortable. Most of us go through life never working on our passion or our dreams. We all think it is enough to go to school, get a job, start a family and then die. Each one of us has been lied to; we’ve all been preached ‘cheap grace’, we have all been told that life is about our careers and our money. We let the world get in the way of who we truly are!

‘What we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory He will reveal to us later.’ Romans 8:18

I pray that anything I have written that is not the will of God that it falls dead at your sight and does not bear bad fruit.

God Bless

 

I love this response! This truly shows that we can always be comforted to do the will of God. It may at first seem uncomfortable to leave the fleshly desires but as we embrace God's love the more our heart changes and we can find rest in doing the spiritual works that our father has commanded of us.