Comfort Zone!!

I know that in Life, people long for the life that is comfortable to them. They look for the job where they are most comfortable, search for the spouse who they can be comfortable around, live in neighborhoods where they feal comfortable and so on... Life has become a race, and the finish line is tons of comfort. This is all well and good, until you begin to talk about the church and the life of a christian. Sure you should be in the comfort of God, but you should never be in situations that allow you to be comfortable without his help. In other words, you should get out of YOUR comfort zone and rely on God to give you the comfort. I have seen many churches in my short life, both ones that are putting themselves outside of their comfort zone and ones staying within theirs. The ones who are willing to get outside of their comfort are the ones who are growing and receiving the blessings of God. Acts 1:8 says, "But ye shall receive power, when the Holy Spirit is come upon you: and ye shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea and Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth." This is not a question where God asks us if we will, but an order where God says "ye shall." This is the most important order any christian will receive from God, and if you can follow and complete this order with comfort I can assure you it isn't your own, but that of the Lords. Psalm 23:4 says, "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." If there is anything that should be uncomfortable I would think that it's death, but notice that it says the shadow of death. The shadow of death can cause no pain unless you are without the Lord. To put it into simpler terms, the shadow of a snake can neither bite nor harm you. To have a shadow, two things must be present. First some light and second some sort of object. In this situation, death is obviously the object and you have to search no further than John 8:12 to find that Jesus is the "Light of the world." The day that Jesus (Gods sacrificed son) died on the cross and rose again on the third day to defeat death, it no longer was dark and dreadful, but became merely a shadow for those who accept God as the "Light of the World." I ask that all Christians and non ask themselves, "what comfort zones should I be breaking?" With the "Light of the World," even the worries of death itself become shadows, through the comfort of eternal life spent with God in heaven.