Ah , to be comfortable.....

What is one of the worst words I have ever heard..... Comfortable.
It is a word that kills. With that word Lot's wife looked back, to what she was comfortable with.....poof, gone she became, pillar of salt.  Lives are lost to being comfortable  physically and mentally and spiritually.

Look at Jacob and Esau, Esau was comfortable where he was at, too comfortable that he thought not of the repercussions of his actions over a bowl of food.  Well, it had some repercussions, to say the least. That's a nice few chapters in Genesis on it's own ( Jacob being sent away, not seeing family for very long time, etc).
In the New testament, just look at the Rich young ruler (Luke 18:18-30), comfortable in life in both religious and physical areas.

 What is so wrong with being comfortable? Who doesn't like it? The problem with it is that we get "comfortable" with where we are at, or how we do things and then it ends there. Like getting under the blankets on a cold night, especially with one you love,  you don't want to get out. It is entrancing.
Yet if we do this in our walk, it will destroy us and those around us who become infected with it.

If one thinks of hypothermia, body starts to freeze, fall way below what is was designed to be at. What don't you want the person to do? Sleep.....though sleep is comfortable, it could kill the person because the body starts to relax, and slow down, and then eventually die.
Or, if one has ever seen the way to boil a frog, you turn the heat up just gradually, and over time, the comfort the frog gets , kills it.

This is how we become when we get comfortable and stay there. We become so entangled in how good it feels, how nice it is to be, that the devil creeps in and turns up the heat ever so slightly, over and over, til we don't even realize how far we have come and it still feels so good, that we die.....spiritually and even times physically.

I'm not putting down comfort, just remembering that it is not all it's cracked up to be. It may be a step along the way, not the destination. We have to get out from that comfort or we will sooner or later be destroyed by it.....

Peace, Love, Happiness, Joy, Blessings, hm, Encouragement......:)