This quote was presented to me a couple days ago, and I've been meditating on just what exactly it means ever since. I'm still not 100% sure I understand the exact magnitude of this statement, but I do believe I'm beginning to wrap my head around it.
Up until now, everything that has happened to me or around me, I've looked at through comfort-colored glasses. When I start to have a hard time (which is pretty much every day during support-raising), I question whether God cares about me, because don't I deserve to be comfortable? Shouldn't everything be easy for me? Isn't that the goal of life? To get a nice car and a hot wife and a big house and have 3 cute little kids playing in the in-ground pool in the backyard? Isn't having a "comfortable" life the point of all this work we do?
Simply put, no. Now, nothing is inherently wrong with having any of those things I listed above, so if you're reading this and have any of those things, please don't take that as an accusation. But that is definitely not what life is about. Life is about becoming more like Christ, in both character and deed.
Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did. - 1 John 2:6
For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. - Phillipians 1:21
When Paul says in Phillipians that "to die is gain," that doesn't exactly sound like God has a plan to make us super comfortable all the time. Once again, I have no qualms with being comfortable. I enjoy good food, good company, and good sports teams just as much as the next guy. I do find a sense of comfort in those things. But if that is what my life is all about, then I've missed the point.
My prayer these last few days, and for the coming months, has been and will be that I am consistently being transformed to the image of Christ, that I can live out the words from scripture above, that I would truly live and love like Jesus did, and that I would find my ultimate satisfaction and comfort in the arms of Christ.
Thanks for reading.
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