Jesus Never Promised We Would Be "Comfy"

I agree with the author. I looked for the word comfortable in the bible. Not there! I wanted the comfort of this world and to be able to minister to others. God did not allow it in my life. He did allow me to minister to others but it was usually after much difficulty and hardship in my own life.

Indeed Jesus never promised we would be comfortable in this life but perhaps we have grown so accustomed to all the accessibilities we have that we rarely ponder on how we can avail ourselves to the needs around us and abroad. We are to a great extent apathetic to others needs because we have drifted from our Christian mandate that we were created to "serve" Him and this means we are to be extension of His love toward others. If we truly desire to serve,God would more than show and direct us. The fact is that many have lost touch with service and have strived to get all they can out of this life- material and self-serving and in this pursuit have lost touch with the sensitivity toward others needs. Perhaps our intimacy with God has waned to a great degree that we have lost our sensitivity toward hearing His voice. Does the heart of God weep-- I believe it does.
May our level of faith increase so that we can trust God with the "risks" and "uncertainties".

Outstanding! Well done. You are absolutely correct. To many of us, way to many of us - especially men - are simply easy, squeezy Christians. We are unwilling to engage the culture much less engage ourselves.

And how do we look to others? They'll know us by our love? I have fought the good fight with respect to the ordination of homosexual pastors in the ELCA for four years. Some of the angriest and nastiest comments (and I have a high tolerance for both) have come from pastors. Yes, that's right, pastors.

One wonders what would happen of we all stood for something rather than falling for anything (A. Tippin)?