Four Prayers For Merge Community Church (Prayer Two)

"Father, let us seek Your will over our comfort."

Whoever sold you the idea that life with Jesus meant the elimination of pain and discomfort sold you a huge lie. However, we all buy into this mentality from time to time. Truth is, when examined, Jesus said some very specific things in regards to the discomfort of His followers. Especially, when it comes to the ones who were considered His disciples. What I take from His warnings to them is that the closer we draw to God the more dangerous life with Him will become, not less.

We tend to evaluate life by how comfortable we are, when our comfort could be the most dangerous thing to us. Our comfort could quite possibly be killing our vitality and our influence that God is allowing us to have for His kingdom.

This is one of the reasons we planted in Lake Worth. It is filled with middle class families. One of the dangers of the middle class is the gospel of comfort. Work hard for the next vacation, the next car, the next house. (Usually all these things can be considered the bigger and well as next.)

Bottom Line: God did not send Jesus to provide you with lazy chair living. God sent Jesus to suffer the wrath created by our sin and to make possible an avenue for a relationship with Him. The sooner we realize that the discomfort we experience in our lives may actually be God working in our transformation process, the sooner we get to living life to the fullest.

Heart and Soul,
BAG
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