Do you ever feel like you are being called to really get out of your comfort zone? Have you ever been nestled into this bed of pillows and blankets and just felt so content in being where you are, except for this one little feeling you have tugging at your heart, telling you that maybe you should get up and step out of your nest for a bit? I think I'm feeling that right now. I'm way comfortable. And so content in where I am. Yet there's something that's just...off. Everything is in the right place except for one little thing...which is obviously sticking out like a sore thumb among what I want to be my organized, a-place-for-everything-and-everything-in-its-place life. Once again, I find myself in old habits, back into the summer swing of things. Life is good. Life is easy. Life is relaxed. But I'm not supposed to be in the same pattern and habits of past summers...I have changed a lot over the past year...parts of this summer should look different. So here I have God giving me these obvious signs that I need to change something about my current ways. He's nudging me...telling me to go ahead, to trust him...to give him a shot to prove himself. I don't know why I can't just let myself take the step, grab his hand, and trust him. It's clearly an issue I deal with a lot. He promises me that his thoughts are nothing like my thoughts...and his ways are far beyond anything I could ever imagine (Isaiah 55:8). I so badly want to live like I really believe that, to leave my comfort zone and follow the path that God is setting before me. He's standing there with the air traffic control lights (you know...the light-sabre-like sticks that people wave when directing airplanes) and guiding me...but that very first baby step seems like the hardest thing I can imagine right now. It's just so hard to keep in mind the fact that my goal is not comfort. My goal is Jesus. And to accomplish that goal, I must abide in God's will for my life. Easier said than done, but as it is said in the old hymn, it is so sweet to trust in Jesus. He proves himself over and over. I just have to let go and give him a chance.
’Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus,
Just to take Him at His Word;
Just to rest upon His promise,
And to know, “Thus saith the Lord!”
Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him!
How I’ve proved Him o’er and o’er;
Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus!
Oh, for grace to trust Him more!
Oh, how sweet to trust in Jesus,
Just to trust His cleansing blood;
And in simple faith to plunge me
’Neath the healing, cleansing flood!
Yes, ’tis sweet to trust in Jesus,
Just from sin and self to cease;
Just from Jesus simply taking
Life and rest, and joy and peace.
I’m so glad I learned to trust Thee,
Precious Jesus, Savior, Friend;
And I know that Thou art with me,
Wilt be with me to the end.
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