Here it is boys and girls, part two of the comfort trilogy. Are you ready? Part 2 is a story, its a story about a city of comfort. I encourage you to read the whole story, it is written so well. If you don’t have time, you can just read the summary and get the main points.
“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”
Read one of those links before you read on.
What does this story have to do with comfort?
This story means so many different things to everyone and to me. It means lots of different things to me. Let me focus on one.
This story puts forth an idea that you have two choices: you can stay in the city or you can leave the city. Those are it, but really both of those choices are just ignoring the problem. Walking away from a problem does not fix the problem, and staying where you’re at and enjoying the comfort that is allowed because of the kid is just ignoring the problem.
There is one more thing that you can do and really its the hardest one because it’s the uncomfortable one. It’s the one people will hate. It’s the one that will cause you to get a lot of enemies because it will cause suffering because you will mess with people’s happiness, music, and prosperity. That choice is to fight for the kid.
Since my trilogy is more about our individual life (or that’s what I’m aiming for), what does this look like as a Christian? What if we stop ignoring the problems around us or what if we stop walking away from them?
How many of us have a relationship in our life that we just keep that in the dark and don’t talk about it, or how many relationships do we just run away from because we can’t deal with it?
There are times when it is best to walk away from certain relationships, but there are times when as Christians we need to fight for that person. If you have relationships in the other boat and you just ignore the problems, that is never a good thing. It is unhealthy and poisonous to a relationship.
There are so many ways in our Christian walk we will want to run from or ignore. Whether it is telling our story, confronting our own sin, evangelism, volunteering, giving God everything or giving up your reputation for the Glory of God.
I wrote this blog knowing I lived in the comfort, but I didn’t know what it totally meant to me to live in the discomfort and finding my comfort in Christ. Nothing (so far) on this world race journey has caused me that much discomfort, until I got here in Phuket, Thailand. So part 3 will be about that.
Thanks for reading, God bless.
