Dont get too comfortable

July 4, 2012

Okay so life around here lately has been a little upside down to say the least.  We had a crazy storm called a derecho a few days ago and we havent had power in days.    We are currently living in our basement bc its been ranging from 95-104 degrees each day! What a crazy time of year to not have power! It sure is a good thing that Jared has taught me to be such a good camper!

 I have been working a lot the past few days in trying to leave for West Virginia tonight to get our biometric fingerprints redone tomorrow! We have been so blessed by our church family and friends the last few days, opening their home for us to shower, eat and do laundry.   The new prediction is that power will return in one week. :/  God is humbling us and reminding us that we have so many luxuries here in America. It makes me sick how comfortable we are here. Its been an awesome eye opening experience for me and makes me pray even harder for Baby Africa’s family. They would find it appalling that I complained today about not getting to sleep in my bed for a few days. They might not even have a bed. I am so grateful for the lessons God is teaching me. I hate the things of this world and want to be more like Jesus. Oh I pray that he will continue to mold me to be more like him.   I came across this devotional and found it fitting for this week and a good reminder for myself.

Daily Devotional Bible Verse (shortdailydevotionals.com)

"and the people of Israel said to them, “Would that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”
(Exodus 16:3 ESV)

God has done a lot of crazy/awesome things for the Israelites. The 10 plagues have happened, God parted the Red Sea, saved them from the Egyptians, and now they want to go back because their tummies are hungry. Their hunger makes them forget what God had done. They had gotten comfortable having food in their stomach even if it meant being in slavery. We can read this and say we would never act like this toward God if he showed us all of these miracles and rescued us. What we must remember though, is that God has rescued us from sin and his wrath to come.

Everything we have: our car, our family, our money, and our house are from him also. So, what is the comfort in your life that you can’t live without? What would happen if God took away your car, downsized your house, or maybe cuts your paycheck by a little? Are you going to complain to Him and forget all the things he has done for you in the past? If we are brutally honest about ourselves, we would admit we are just like the Israelites who can get comfortable with a paycheck in the bank and food on the table everyday. But, Jesus never called us to live a life of comfort.
Look at your life and see if there is anything you can’t live without and ask God to help you rely on him and not that comfort.