I was with someone I know here in Houston and I went to his office late yesterday afternoon. I commented on how nice the office was and he replied, "Yea, pretty comfortable."
Irresistible Revolution says "God comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable." I suppose I'm pretty disturbed here, if you want to say that. It's disturbing when you hear your name yelled by a bunch of kids saying everything between "he hit me" to "how old are you?" It's overwhelming and frustrating.
It's not really that frustrating and I suppose it is a bit overwhelming to be transformed. Our devotional this morning was about the theme of our VBS: transformed. I liked it because there was a movie reference in it. Basically, it was that Forrest Gump's run transformed him. He went some cool places and saw some cool things. I guess Christianity is like Forrest's run: simple but not easy. It's simple to run but it sure isn't easy to maintain the race. It's certainly not comfortable.
Another comfortable quote I found nestled in the Irresistible Revolution is that
"Maybe the most dangerous place for a Christian to be is in safety and comfort."
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