Christ or Comfort

The Christian community is largely asleep and only thinking as far as their own comfort. The Christian community needs to truly live on faith. How can a believer spend so much time on his comfort and himself and yet say "I live by faith". The world has no Idea what that means because we have greatly allowed ourselves to focus on it. The excuse come down to ourselves really. A lot of Christians say "I know what you mean but what about my family? My parents need help" and stuff like that. Which they are all valid but in saying and thinking that, they are pretty much confessing that God isn't going to do it so I have to do it. What message does that send to the world? If believers cannot live in faith, then why would the world. Like you said the lines are blurred and the definition of faith made worthless. We pick up our cross but seldom deny ourself and defeat the purpose of picking up the cross.


I do not mean that you should quit your Job, I'm not saying become Amish and shun modern society. What I am saying is that if your decisions are made by whether or not you will be comfortable, and not on whether or not God has told you to, then you are not living by faith. We need to be willing to drop what God tells us to drop when He tells us to drop it, and to pick up what God wants us to pick up when He wants us to pick it up.


We get the finger pointed at us all the time because we are are guilty of hypocrisy. We tell the unbelievers that we have great faith in God, but when it comes time to show our faith we don't step out of our comfort, we won't share, we wont leave, we wont try. It doesn't matter what it is that makes you uncomfortable, remember that our God is bigger than anything that we can encounter. God can give you the courage and boldness, God can give you the food you need, God can give you the money you need, God can give you the comfort you need, and so much more, all you have to do is HAVE FAITH AND PRACTICE FAITH.


Romans 1:16

A venture in Faith

Step out in faith.

A statement that holds a lot for a believer. It holds fear, excitement curiosity, anxiety.

I am waiting for the next step of faith that God has for me. There are things that I have been asked about for here in Japan and back in the states and yet through all my prayers and waiting on the Lord, I feel led in neither way.

Now for me a step of faith is confusion. Things that I wanted to do so much have dissipated in my heart. Now I rest on wanting to know what's next. I cannot be hasty in choosing but I cannot be indecisive. I have to wait for God to say so, but he has not said so. Should I be praying about other things? My step of faith is for me and me alone, should I allow my sway to come from man or wait on the Lord to sway me. The answer is clear, man will sway you his way and God will sway you His.

What will the next venture in faith hold? My biggest step is going to be missionary life as a father. My heart feels that maybe God wants to work more there before another big step.