COMFORTABLE

I feel comfortable in our home. Do you know the feeling, you know where you keep everything, you've painted every room, you have a favorite room...etc. I've tried very hard to make our home a place of warmth for the family. A place where they can come and feel secure and loved. A place where Jesus is enveloped all around. Seems like so often we are in the kitchen just talking about cool God things.

But, we are at the brink of signing the house over. Not living here anymore makes me sad. I see our family walk in the door to the love and warmth that is here. But this morning in my prayers I knelt down and asked the Lord to please show me any way that my comfortable is a sin. Any way where I have made my home my place of comfort over Him. I sought his presence, I confessed if there is any of this in me and asked him to remove it from me.

My desire is to completely surrender all of who I am to him. To see him as the ultimate comfortor alone. Nothing else matters - NOTHING! A home is a home, but Jesus is our real home, our place of refuge. His Word says "God is our refuge and strength, an ever present help in trouble." Refuge, according to the dictionary is a place of shelter, protection and safety. Now if my home is that to me it will soon fade away. What could possibly be better than Jesus being our shelter - he carries us as wings of and Eagle. He will keep us safe not our house.

I love that I can wake up each day and spend time studying the Word of God. I love that when my foot slips he will be there to catch me. If I get too comfortable he will remind me that he is the comfortor. Walking out our faith is a daily process. We will never "arrive"! Some days we are stronger than other days. That is just being real. Why gloss over it, that's the way we human's are.

Jesus words "Abide in me and I in you..." To abide is to live with, to make our home in him. He will take care of our earthly needs. He has already done that. He wants us to abide completely in him, no matter what he prunes out of our life. He and He alone is all we need, he will take care of the rest.

Lord, fill me with your comfort - yours alone!