Let's be honest, we live a comfortable life. Our days start off with the same conversation, the same people and the same route to school. We go to the same classes with the same professors and order the same meal from the cafe. Our Mondays turn into Tuesdays and the cycle repeats on and on. Although this seems insanely boring, we consider this comfortable. A change from this specific schedule sends us into a frenzy, and we yearn to go back to our comfortable lifestyle. We don't want or expect change to happen in our day, and we finish our day knowing the same thing will happen tomorrow.

Well, we become just as comfortable in our relationship with Christ.

Yes, it's hard to wrap your mind around this concept but we do.

When we began this awesome and blessed walk with the Lord, we started to prioritize Him in our life: attending church twice a week, reading the Bible in the morning, spending time in prayer, studying the Bible at night and serving in our church or community. Then, slowly but surely, everything we began to do for Jesus became just another part of our life.

I mean think about it. How many times do you go to church and have prayed for God to rock your world that Sunday morning? Or do you really think about the message being taught or are you worried about how you are going to serve in the church next week? How often do you see someone who does not have Christ in their heart and you neglect the fact that you could help change their life? It is all because we have gotten into this comfortable area of our walk.

However, God never intended this path to be comfortable.

Think about Moses. Moses' mother hid him for 3 months and then put him in a basket and sent him down the river because a bad guy named Pharaoh did not want Hebrew boy babies to be born. Moses was found by Pharaoh's daughter and decided she would raise the baby once he became of age. At this time, the Hebrews were considered slaves, and Moses was freed from such a bad life. I'm sure there were times when Moses thought he was living the life being considered royalty, but he knew that he was supposed to follow God and do the things God had planned for him.

Moses was a lot like us. He was so comfortable in his ways, and with God. Like us, Moses knew that he was supposed to follow God, but he kind of avoided Him. He leaves to find the Hebrews, and one day when Moses was so torn because he was still trying to live his comfortable life, God finally spoke to him through a BURNING BUSH.

God told Moses that He knew he was trying to stay inside his comfort zone and that he was capable of freeing the Hebrews from their slavery, he just had to stand up to Pharaoh and follow God's orders. Moses dropped everything, abandoned his comfortable life, and followed God's direction and did some marvelous things, including parting the Red Sea, allowing the Hebrews to get to safety.

Now, if we were in Moses' shoes, we would be like "well God, you see I'm supposed to have an event tomorrow so I can't go save Your people. Can I do it on Thursday? I have a free hour but can we be done by 11:50 because I have class at 12."

We often get so consumed with the ways of the world and the schedules we have made that we do not allow us to be shaken and molded by Christ. I know because I've been there, numerous times. It's hard to understand that being comfortable can be a bad thing, but if we are comfortable with where God is in our lives, it means we are holding ourselves back from reaching our true potential.

That is why we must pray for God to come into our comfortable lives and shake things up a bit. Allow Him to change the things that we do to glorify Him in some way. Allow Him to throw our comfort out the window and give us a path provided by Him day after day. Allow Him to one day look at us and say "well done my good and faithful servant."

If you are trying to claw your way out of this valley you are trapped in, change the way you are living your comfortable life with the help of God. Although we may not have given Him our attention today, He is still there waiting for us to be embraced in His arms.

This is the one place that we can be comfortable.