A New Comfort Level

A Better Year

Will this year be better than last year? I’ll be the first to admit that for most of my life, one year to the next it has looked the same. Any changes that have taken place have been small incremental changes. They added up to some significant positive changes, but I was not always able to see those changes until years later. At the start of a new year, I would haphazardly make a New Year’s Resolution. I didn’t want to change.

A Life of Comfort

There was a level of comfort that I had accepted with my life. Things weren’t horrible but they weren’t great either. I was making enough money to be comfortable, really living paycheck to paycheck, but it was comfortable to me. Comfortable with my health, where I’m not sick but maybe a couple of times a year. Every aspect of my life was comfortable. My job was comfortable, my health was comfortable, my relationships with friends and family were comfortable, my relationship with Christ was comfortable. In all these areas I was so comfortable that I didn’t realize how stagnate I became. To the point that I could make a New Year’s Resolution and not really be concerned when I failed at it. It didn’t concern me because I could always go back to my comfort.

I believe that many people are the same way. Our New Year’s Resolution and goals go unmet because deep down in our hearts we don’t really want to change. When we are comfortable with God, then every other area of our lives we will settle for a level of comfortablity that is less than God’s best.

Great things are accomplished by those that are not willing to settle for the status-quo. God has better standard for us to live by.

Matthew 7:7(KJV)
7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

Ask and Seek

This scripture tells us how we are to live by God’s standard. The first thing is to ask We have to ask for the different areas of our lives to be impacted by the Word of God. Ask to have the God’s Blessing in every area. The second thing we have to do is seek. Seeking is another way of saying that we should persue God. Read the Bible, pray and find the scriptures that will keep our focus on God’s standard.

The opposite of an attitude of comfort is the desire to push for more. Ask and seek God for more. More what? More of Him is the easy answer. How that looks and implementing it into our lives is what can be difficult. Like Matthew 7:7 says, if we do the asking and the seeking, then God will open those doors for us. He will change those area in our lives to His standard. He will also guide us through the difficult parts of this process, as long as we continue to keep our focus on Him.

To make lasting changes this year, we can’t settle for the level of comfortablity that we have achieved. We must ask and seek God for the next thing He has for us.

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Author: Leonard

I am father to LJ (Leonard Joshua), and Sophia. Loving husband to Kalene. Jesus is my Lord and Savior and I aim to live my life in a way that is pleasing to Him and that honors my family. I believe that every Christian should be bold to live their life and have the love to impact those around them.

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