A Bean Bag God

Comfort VS Change

It’s like the ultimate clash of the titans with these two. In my opinion (humble one of course  ), there’s really very little middle ground between these two. Change as we all know is constant and at times comes to us whether we chose it or not. Comfort on the other hand is what we make out of something, a person, a place or a situation.

Imagine how your butt fits perfectly well into the bean bag that you’ve had for years…It’s comfortable cause you’ve made it so...conscious or not. My personal struggle is when to do what. I mean of course change is great and all that…but I mean if life isn’t at all about investing in comfort then why do we attempt to adapt to change in the first place right? I mean the whole point of adapting to change is that at some point whatever overhaul you just went through becomes less of that shoe biting at your heel and more like the one that you’ve got on for years.

So I started digging…Break out the topical bible or in this case…the internet (was at work!). I wanted to put in some verses but I didn’t really get any that I thought matched my train of thought…(sigh…note to self need to better bible study methods!) anyways…I did however do a lot of reading online and through a couple of chapter in Corrinthians too…

I think God is definitely a god of both. I mean I can’t imagine he’d be up in heaven just sitting there going ok time to make him feel uncomfortable.

But I think the finer line is not between comfort and change but between comfort and complacency... (OMG it’s like C words galore…) When comfort turns to a point of complacency then sound the siren, break out the red light we’ve got a problem! When does it go from one to another? My stand is that when change becomes an unacceptable, atrociously wretched bitter idea. (ok maybe not so dramatically…)

It’s like that bean bag I was talking about earlier, when you’re so “comfortable” with it…that’s it is spewing beans but you still refuse to go out and get a new one. It’s just never like the old one, it won’t be same, I can’t believe I have to change it…it’s just not what I want. I get it, it’s not easy and you’re bum’s got a soft spot for that bean bag…and the new one well it hasn’t taken shape yet…but that’s just it…it will!

But if you’re so comfortable in life that change is an unacceptable idea, cause you can still make do then how’d you ever get to experience the new leather super cushiony bean bag?! Greater things have yet to come, greater things are still to be done…

Suddenly I’m beginning to think comfort doesn’t have middle ground with change and all…it’s more of a cyclic thing…where one comes after the other. It’s not a matter of choosing in a moment to reject one or the other but rather embracing both that are equally inevitable.

Knowing that God wants you to have a goo comfortable life, that he wants blessing for you…he doesn’t want you struggling. BUT…when that comfort turns to complacency then He’s got to shake up your bean bag world. But rest assured God’s an awesome bean bag maker *wink* and he’s got the best grade ones out there!

Cheerios!