I like to be comfortable.  I don’t like to be cold or hot.  Last week the temperature was in the 50’s and I will admit that I turned my furnace back on…and it wasn’t because of the children even though I may have used them as an excuse.  I don’t like to be hot either…which may be part of the reason why I don’t like to exercise.  I like to be comfortable.  Who doesn’t right?  But I can become consumed with being comfortable…it can become number one priority.  Being comfortable can start to dictate my life…I can’t go there because it’s too cold, or I can’t do that because I might get too hot.  Why am I telling you all this?  I’m glad you asked 🙂  I’m telling you this because this whole obsession with being comfortable can soooo be my spiritual life too.  Being hot for God is great…but it’s tiring.  Being cold is definitely not a pleasant place to be.  But sometimes I just want to coast.  To take it easy.  To be comfortable.  To just live life and not think too much about what God wants me to do every second of every day.  Now, this doesn’t usually happen on purpose.  I don’t just up and decide one day to be lazy in my walk with God.  Life happens.  Stuff happens and before I know it…my joy is gone.  My tenderness to His leading is gone.  And then I do have to make a conscious choice to get back in the heat.  To humble myself, ask for His mercy, and seek to listen and obey.  I found myself in that place last week (although, it can happen multiple times a day) and you know what?  God was still right there and exactly the same…waiting for me to surrender yet again.  It takes effort to stay in that Spirit led walk…and it’s not always comfortable (at least according to my definition).  He leads me to do things that I don’t want to do…things that make me…uncomfortable.  But the funny thing is…it’s the place where He brings me peace and joy, and it’s the place that I find…the God of all comforts.  Ironic, right?  So, I find again and again and again that the life that I thought would be comfortable…isn’t.  But the life that is wholly surrendered to my Savior…ahhhh, like a cool summer breeze…comfortable (according to God’s definition).

“So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.” Revelation 3:16

“Oh, send out Your light and Your truth!  Let them lead me; Let them bring me to Your holy hill And to Your tabernacle.  Then I will go to the altar of God, To God my exceeding joy; And on the harp I will praise You, O God, my God.”  Psalm 43:3-4