By Kevin Eagle at BeDeviant I’ve tried in all my geeky wisdom to get my wife to use an RSS reader to aggregate all of the blogs that she is now following, but much to my chagrin, she still insists on reading each one individually. Well, the fact of the matter is, I don’t really care, because she still shares good stuff with me from time to time.
Case in point, we were sitting in front of the TV on Saturday night and she speaks up to say that I needed to read the blog post of one of her favorite bloggers (http://www.mycharmingkids.net) from that day.
Well this morning, I finally got around to it, and one sentence struck me as profound. “God cares about my character, not my comfort.” (from http://tinyurl.com/yawoob)
I’ve written recently about my lack of focus and uncertainty about the potential for 2010. What’s really going on is that there are so many things in my life that I’m uncertain about right now, I’m swimming in the “what ifs” and continually asking “what should I do?”
I’m very uncomfortable right now…with questions about my ministry, with questions about my career choice and direction, with questions about my finances, with questions about my family life. But this one statement made me stop and think, God wants me to be uncomfortable, because that’s when I can trust him most, and that is when I have the opportunity to build on my character. God cares more about my character than my comfort because comfort is a human attribute, a human longing, a human emotion.
Character is who I really am, and who I really am reflects who God created me to be and reveals the ways in which I am created in His image.
So my response? Worship and praise! Praise God for my discomfort! I worship Him with my disconcerted life by obedience and my quest for His perfect will. He is shaping me through these experiences, because I certainly can’t shape myself to perfect all aspects of my life.
So if you are suffering in a manner that pleases God, keep on doing what is right, and trust your lives to the God who created you, for he will never fail you. ~1 Peter 4:19~
I will sing to the Lord as long as I live.
I will praise my God to my last breath! ~Psalm 104:33~
Case in point, we were sitting in front of the TV on Saturday night and she speaks up to say that I needed to read the blog post of one of her favorite bloggers (http://www.mycharmingkids.net) from that day.
Well this morning, I finally got around to it, and one sentence struck me as profound. “God cares about my character, not my comfort.” (from http://tinyurl.com/yawoob)
I’ve written recently about my lack of focus and uncertainty about the potential for 2010. What’s really going on is that there are so many things in my life that I’m uncertain about right now, I’m swimming in the “what ifs” and continually asking “what should I do?”
I’m very uncomfortable right now…with questions about my ministry, with questions about my career choice and direction, with questions about my finances, with questions about my family life. But this one statement made me stop and think, God wants me to be uncomfortable, because that’s when I can trust him most, and that is when I have the opportunity to build on my character. God cares more about my character than my comfort because comfort is a human attribute, a human longing, a human emotion.
Character is who I really am, and who I really am reflects who God created me to be and reveals the ways in which I am created in His image.
So my response? Worship and praise! Praise God for my discomfort! I worship Him with my disconcerted life by obedience and my quest for His perfect will. He is shaping me through these experiences, because I certainly can’t shape myself to perfect all aspects of my life.
So if you are suffering in a manner that pleases God, keep on doing what is right, and trust your lives to the God who created you, for he will never fail you. ~1 Peter 4:19~
I will sing to the Lord as long as I live.
I will praise my God to my last breath! ~Psalm 104:33~