Category: Faith

Why You need to be Uncomfortable

Today is one of those days. I’m not feeling particularly motivated and I wasn’t really sure about what to write for today’s 500 word challenge. I believe that we all have days like this. Where we would like to coast through the day and go back to bed. Somehow we have the fondest memories of what it’s like to be in bed, not realizing that it’s that same bed that is keeping us from achieving our dreams.

If you ask most people what it is that they love about their bed; they would say something about the comfortability of it. While that may be needed in a mattress and blankets, it is not needed in other areas of our lives. Too much comfort will cause us to stay in same place in our lives. We will not grow as a person. We lose interest in the world around us and then drift through life in our comfortability.

This is why we see older couples get divorced. The kids have all grown up and out of the house. The parents realize that they have spent the last 20 or more years in comfort. It was comfortable to make everything about the kids. They can look at each other and think that they don’t know their spouse anymore. What really happened is that they became comfortable in the routines that they had. They did not continue to develop themselves first and then their relationship with each other second. Everything it takes to raise children became the top priorities in life.

Comfortability also effects us spiritually. We like to have our church services for an hour or so, we like for our pastor to teach about the good things in the Bible, and we want there to be a great children’s ministry. We get upset if they don’t sing the songs we like, or if we need to help out when we weren’t on the schedule for that day.

The problem with comfortability is that it puts the focus on ourselves. We look at everything through the lens of what is best for us. We can forget the main reason of why. In the previous two examples we can forget why we fell in love with our spouse, why we got married, why we go to church, or why we volunteer and help our church.

We can never forget our why. This should be what drives us to be the best version of ourself. It’s what gets us up in the morning after the previous day was long. There is a great video by this comedian, Michael Jr., where he explains knowing our why. Here’s the link and let me know what you guys think.

The fight we fight on a daily basis to get a place where there is balance. We want to have stability in different areas of our lives, but so much comfortability that we coast through the rest of our lives. There is so much for us each to do, so many opportunities to be a blessing to people around us that we can miss it all, we can miss life if we’re not looking.