This is a repost with a few edits. I am doing my very first book giveaway. You can find all the details here. It will close on Tues. & the winner will be announced on Wed. Hope you join it!
Tonight Danny was going to be a little late getting home from work. So I settled on the couch to read a bit. Have you noticed that we tend to have a favorite place where we settle in to read or watch TV? It is the place that is comfortable, suits us, feels so right. It takes time for a favorite place to become “oursâ€. It requires a little breaking in, a little time experiencing that particular spot. It may not have even felt very comfortable at first. Have you noticed that your comfortable spot is where everyone wants to sit!! Seriously. We have gone through the pains of breaking it in & others reap the benefit of what we have gone through. I read this tonight…
“God doesn’t comfort us to make us comfortable, He comforts us to make us comfort-able; able to be used as vessels through which God can pour our His mercy, love, & comfort to others.†(from “Leading Women to the Heart of God†by Lysa TerKeurst – page 42).
Wait – it isn’t for MY comfort? It isn’t for me to be comfortable? He comforts me so that I can comfort others? This means in everything I go through in my lifetime, there is purpose not only for me but for others. By receiving from Him, I then become a vessel through which He is displayed. He is in the business of making me comfort-able. He is making me an agent of comfort. Remembering this makes all I go through so much more worth it.
“Praise be to the God & Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion & the God of ALL comfort, who comforts us in ALL our troubles, SO THAT we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.†(2Corinthians 1:3-4)
Surrendering everything I go through in my life, I may never know the difference I can make. But surrender I must so that everything may be used by my God for His purposes. So the question I am asking myself is – do I want to be comfortable or comfort-able?
Today I linked with Sunday Stillness and Still Saturday and Spiritual Sundays and The Sunday Community and Essential Fridays .
You underline the important message in such a fine way (I love the Picture as well) – that our cup is to overflow so that others around us can partake the Blessings from God! Blessings to your week,
Nina
Thank you for commenting. May we always overflow to others. Blessings are so much better shared 🙂
This is a great post! I love the pic and love my comfortable spot at home too. Thanks for challenging us to remember how God wants us to use what He gives us to benefit others. Thanks for linking up at Essential Fridays.