When My Comfort Zone Is Killing My Vision

In my comfort zone, although I feel safe I’m

afraid of what’s ahead of me…

afraid to move forward…

afraid to let go of what’s familiar to me…

people who are familiar to me…

places that are familiar to me.

When moving forward seems like too much…

when it seems like more than I’m able to process…

more than I can handle…

more often than not…

surprisingly enough…

I choose to stay in my comfort zone.

So I say to God, just leave me here to my own thoughts & plans. Although in my heart I want to move forward into what God has for me, my lack of faith won’t let me believe that God’s got it all under control. As much as I want to trust Him and submit to His will, I can’t do that in my comfort zone because there is no faith here.

What about you?  Has God ever shown you something about yourself that you thought was so amazing, but you still said;

No God, not me!

Who’s going to do that?

Who’s going to go there?

Who’s going to have that?

Certainly, not me! 

That’s when you know your comfort zone is killing your vision.

Faith calls me to believe forward...it calls me to believe what I cannot see.

(Hebrews 11:1 - Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.)

The word “substance”  means ‘that which is Foundation’ – so the foundation, the very beginning of anything God has shown us about ourselves is faith, if there is none (faith), there is nothing else.

While in a comfort zone experience, one can only see what’s comfortable, easy, and familiar. In this stagnant place we're not required to trust in anybody except ourselves.

The only living things that exists in this place is fear, complacency and faithlessness. Not life-giving ‘living’ but ‘life-taking’ living! Comfort zones diminish & destroy dreams, visions, relationships, progress, excellence and growth!

 In order for us to move from a place of comfort to a place of faith, we must trust in God and keep Him as our primary focus.  We must remove ourselves from sin and disorder and quiet ourselves with the peace of God’s spirit in order to receive His direction. We must not refuse the process that we must go through in order to receive what God has promised us.

 

And finally, we must not be lazy and rebellious in our responses to God and His prompting for us to move forward, to let go of the baggage of our past or people we should have left in our past. He is simply calling us to faith and trust in Him to bring what He has shown us to pass!