Comfort Kills

I have spent most of my life looking for the easy way out. I admit it. And maybe you have too.

I didn’t take those big career chances, because I was comfortable where I was. Nor did I pursue full-time ministry because I thought my family needed me to bring home a paycheck.

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What I’m doing now is fine, even respectable. I’m in a good job that makes a difference, going to a growing church and doing bits and pieces of helpful ministry. I have a 401k, a home, a car that’s paid for and a freezer full of food. It’s all very tidy. It’s all very comfortable. But I hear a distant voice. “Is this it? Really?”

Our society values comfort. We set our thermostats and curse the one who lowers it by a degree or two to save some money. We like our Lazy-B-Boy existences. Our big dreams are left for another day — tomorrow — and then the next day. Before you know it, it’s a fuzzy remembrance of days gone by.

The problem is that a dream denied or suppressed often becomes forgotten and the frightening reality that God may just move on to someone else.

Rocks are comfortable. Fence posts are comfortable. Mattress stores are comfortable. But world-changers are never comfortable.

And here I sit, with my noble things. But maybe it’s time to pursue a little excellence. Is it possible that I have to give up the good in order to taste the great?

Care to comment?

Thanks to Pastor Chad for the sermon inspiration.

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