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Don't Get Comfortable

It’s a running joke among my co-workers that I never stay in town on weekends I’m not working. I guess it’s not so much a joke as it is reality. The truth is: I love to travel and get restless staying in one place very long.

I was pondering this on a recent trip back from visiting my parents in Mississippi for Thanksgiving. Since leaving New York to attend college in Indiana, I’ve struggled with settling anywhere and really making a place “home”. This especially became difficult most recently when I moved from Lexington, Kentucky, where I had really established a great church family—to move to Macon, Georgia responding to the call God has placed on my life. I remember having some very emotional moments with Jesus in the midst of the move and shortly after. It seems like every time I get comfortable somewhere God shakes things up and moves me somewhere new.

God revealed something to me on my drive back from Mississippi about this; Christians are not supposed to get comfortable. If you call yourself a Christ follower and find yourself getting comfortable, you should anticipate God to do something big and life shifting very soon. Why is this, you may ask? Because this world is not our home—we are in this world, but not of it (John 17:14-15) and anytime God’s people start forgetting this, God will most certainly remind them!

He did it time and time again with Israel, and He will do it with you too.

Think of it this way. Say your spouse went on a business trip. After a few weeks, they still haven’t returned. Finally you find out the reason; they’ve decided they really like it where they are, they’ve gotten a house, transferred their job to that location, and settled in. You would most certainly do something drastic to remind them where their home really is, wouldn’t you? That’s exactly what God does with us.

Our contentment should never be with things of this world. Our security should always be in Christ alone.

“Set your mind on things above, not on earthly things.” Colossians 3:2 NLT


“Friends, this world is not your home, so don’t make yourselves cozy in it. Don’t indulge your ego at the expense of your soul. Live an exemplary life among the natives so that your actions will refute their prejudices. Then they’ll be won over to God’s side and be there to join in the celebration when he arrives.” 1 Peter 2: 11-12 MSG

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