comfort and the call
I am sitting in an air conditioned building, typing on a laptop, and I am comfortable. A coffee shop presence is around me and I am satisfied in its organized and fashionable manner.
People around me are plugged into computers, in a world of stimulation, absorbed. They are essentially sitting comfortably.
I cannot say that I know what it is to be oblivious to comfort, because I have known comfort my whole life. If I ever lacked it, it only took me minutes to again be comforted.
Being pushed, thrushed forward, and in a state of change is what I have known as temporary. Never have I thought, "I love constantly changing and never knowing a spot for more than what I am comfortable with."
I have never lacked a chance to be complacent.
Which is what we typically find in this society we were raised by, America. I am not bagging America in no way, and neither do I disown it. This is my soceity, these ideals and people are the people that build up my life. But as I continue to prepare for this next season, I find that I have been spoiled and now I am finding the downfall of this beautiful dream.
We have become so readily available to settle.
To settle for an American dream that was never a dream but a veil placed before our eyes.
Again, I do not bag on American culture, I am just recognizing slowly and surely the effect and curse that can so easily blind us if we are not awakened to truth.
The truth of Jesus Christ. Which brings into play the call. The call that is so divinely and intricatley placed into us upon the exact moment we were created.
It is not something that just lingers and waits for us to notice it. It fights against us and begs for us to take notice because it is so essential to being awake and truly living.
My friend I am in no means living the capacity of the call that is placed on my life, hence the reason I write. I am not satisfied in this little thing I have honed as my destiny.
You see my destiny and call are so much bigger than what I have known, what I will know, and who I am. So is yours.
Our calls are placed in us by our Creator. It is not something that God thinks, "Hey I want this person to do this cause thats what I want."
God has mapped every detail, taken into every account ever moment, every second, and even deeper. He has placed within us desires and emotions that He wants to jolt to life.
But my friend this call is not comfortable. Unfortunately this call is deeper than what any comfort can bring.
It is the pulse that beats against our chest in disatisfaction of the complacency we have accepted. It is the knowledge that we are empty and that the gaping hole in our chest cannot be met within the physical realm of our life.
It is our deepest and uttermost desire for Jesus.
That essentially is our call.
Jesus.
To be reinstated in the presence of God through the sacrafice of our Lord Jesus Christ. To finally come into the person of Jesus Christ and realize He is what we needed all along.
As you journey through life and find that maybe life isn't worth the American dream or the comfortable life, let me reassure you that it isn't.
Our lives should consist of seeking to be closer and closer to Christ that your life cannot helped but be pushed out of comfort and out of complacency. That you will constantly face the worst of the worst because you know the best of the best, Jesus.
But what you will find that in this life of sacrafice and hard decisions is that comfort can only be had in the presence of Jesus Christ anyways.
Not the comfort that we are so familiar with, but a comfort of knowing that you are known.
Known and called.
Romans 11:29 states:
"for God’s gifts and his call are irrevocable."
My dear friend, this call that nags at you, it won't ever leave you alone. It will always strain and groan against the life that you are creating for yourself. Now is the time to let it go and turn to Jesus.
To become right with Him, and to finally surrender to the call.
It will never relent, it will never let go. Even in eternity you will remember what God called you to, a close relationship with Him through Jesus Christ. Whether you choose the call or not, you will know it even after it is too late.
Don't forgo the call for the comfort. It will never work out.
