I Think We Got Too Comfortable

"For this world is not our permanent home; we are looking forward to a home yet to come."
Hebrews 13:14

Maybe it's because I started listening to Andy Mineo before I started typing this post, but I feel like I need to get something off my chest which has a lot to do with today's blog post. Yes,  we Christians are in the minority today and it feels as though the world is closing in around us. This claustrophobic feeling hit us as a surprise, especially those of us who were born in a sheltered Christian environment where everybody shared similar moral values. Personally, I went from knowing 0 non-Christians (that I knew of) to multiple in ten years. The feeling is unnatural, especially when I look around I realize that I'm trapped between a rock and a hard place, doubt and denial lie on one side, the other side is filled with the lukewarm. Watered down and false doctrine are creating a race of people who think they're Christians, but in reality they've never even heard the true gospel (look up James 2:19). Back on the other side of the spectrum, where the majority of Americans lie, I appear to be an idiotic hateful bigot because of my moral beliefs. It's in these times that I realize... we got too comfortable. Go ahead and read 2 Timothy 3:12, 1 John 3:13, and if you haven't yet Hebrews 13:14.

I heard a story about a man who went to stay at a hotel, this hotel was very dirty and rundown. This hotel was so disgusting and so beyond repair that it had been allotted to destruction. The man was unsatisfied with his room, so he decided to spend hours redecorating and cleaning. After finishing he realized that he didn't like the furniture, so he spent a few days and a few hundred dollars buying new furniture. He sat down to enjoy his new furniture when he realized, he didn't like the paint. So he spent more money and time repainting, after that he replaced the carpet with hardwood, replaced the door, got new windows, ect. By the time he was done, he had spent every penny he owned, but the hotel room looked great. However, no matter what he did he couldn't get rid of the nasty stench that filled the room, he eventually gave up and settled down to enjoy his room. Before he knew it, he was being forced to leave after having wasted all his money and time on this simple hotel room.

That story was a metaphor about how we are getting too comfortable in this world. We don't belong in this world and because of that we are going to face hard times where we are going to feel outnumbered. When we focus on this world and try to make this world comfortable, it makes it easy for us to get depressed when things don't go our way or the way we think things should go. Instead we should realize that no matter what happens in this world, the ending is going to be the same no matter what, so with that in mind we should be striving to be more like Christ by following God's commandments. So that when people see us intentionally getting uncomfortable in this world where comfort is the main goal of everybody's life, we can act as salt and light to those people. I think that all these terrible things that are happening in our world today are reminders that this is not where we need to set up camp and get comfortable, this is the place where we need to constantly be on ours toes because (quoting Devin's awesome shirt) we're "Working on Commission- The Great Commission."