So why climb if we know it will be difficult? Why climb if we know we will lose things along the way? Why not just stay where we are comfortable?
Matthew 15:32
Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.
- Healing; provision
Mark 5: 15-17
And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid. And they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the devil, and also concerning the swine. And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts.
- Deliverance
- Some people don’t want their lives to change; they are comfortable in their current state of sin and control.
- Some people are afraid of the change God will do in you. Why? Because then it becomes real to them. Conviction hits.
- When people are comfortable enough to point at someone else and say they are the problem, and God comes and changes their (the person other people are condemning) life, they no longer have someone to point the finger to but are now forced to look at themselves. And people don’t necessarily want to take accountability. People are afraid of change, and when it takes place so close to them they can default to closing their hearts and rejecting it.
- It is easier to live in a fantasy than in reality.
When we reach the top, we may be bruised, battered, broken, lonely, etc. But God is there not only to heal us but also to provide for us.
See, God fills the void in our life. But we must first make space for Him to occupy.