What is comfort?

God wants us to look to Him for our comfort. He doesn't want us to be comfortable by holding on to what this world has to offer. He wants us to be comfortable in what HE has to offer.  

This doesn't mean we will be comfortable as the world sees comfort but we will be comfortable because we know that we are standing on our Fathers promises. These promises include the promises of the Bible and the promises that the Holy Spirit himself has given (and will continue to give us) in the future.

Faith means I'm ok with whatever circumstance when I know God is leading me. This doesn't mean that it will be easy. It just means that I will be comfortable because my definition of comfort is not the definition this world and culture uses. It's the definition the bible uses. God is my rock. He is what I turn to.

My mom is more concerned about upsetting me than she is about taking a chance to drive up and see her grandchildren. Her thoughts imprison her. For the last year she has chosen to stay in Chicago and not drive to see her family. She has justified this choice by consulting with her friends and family.  She has based this decision on the actions and words of her son and has not at any time heard what the holy spirit would have her do.

Growing up my parents didn't do what the Holy Spirit told them to do. They did what the bible told them to do. But the bible teaches that it is the Holy Spirit himself that teaches us what to pray for and leads us to the Word which is Jesus. This I the way to the Father. If u know Jesus u know the Father. If u don't know Jesus u don't know the Father.

We were taught a gospel growing up that was a false gospel. The bible teaches that the Holy Spirit is sent to guide us. The Holy Spirit was talked about but the focus was always on the bible and more importantly the SDA version of the bible. Which denies us the privilege of wrestling and pleading with God to show us more of his spirit. More of who he is.  Whenever someone spells out the "rules" of knowing God and following him know that it is not what the bible teaches. God can not be defined by a finite set of rules. He is living...breathing...moving.  He is God.

U see. God is so big. So powerful. So immense. His love is so pure that we can only take him in small doses. We are so sinful and impure that our very own thinking is messed up. We think we can just choose to know God. We have it all wrong!  It is God who allows the 3 breaths u just made that allowed oxygen to reach your blood so that your brain could think.

We get so enamored with our day to day accomplishments that we have a complete and utter inability to understand the very one that is driving our circulatory system.  We wrestle with proving their is a God. God doesn't wrestle with this. He simply is.

This is why Jesus came. This is why we have the Holy Spirit. This is why the Word exists. It is all part of Gods way of bridging a gap that was created thousands of years ago.

He is desperate to KNOW us. He is seeking us out. Faith is part of His love plan. It takes faith to know God. It takes faith to follow Him.