Often, Struggle is the way to comfort

​We can so desire comfort that when comfort comes along, we can feel it as a signal that we are on the right path.

Sometimes that is true, I suppose.

But often, quite often, God's plan for us isn't comfort. God's desire for us to to be molded into his plan and his desire for our life doesn't always involve comfort.

Sometimes comfort is evil's grand lie. A trick. The ultimate distraction.

It starts with understanding God's grand plan for us IS constant growth. And growth rarely happens inside of comfort.

God's plan for us IS to live a hero's journey, but heroes overcome struggle, they don't avoid it.

Just ask some biblical heroes: Joseph, Ruth, Moses, Jeremiah, Job, Peter, Paul.....

Jesus.

I'm not suggesting we should pray for struggle, I'm just saying it serves us well to see our struggles as a grander opportunity than our comfort. Because if we miss the opportunity in the struggle, we miss the chance to grow.

We miss our hero's journey.

And this world is full of people in struggle, desperately looking for heroes who can show them the way through it. All the world knows how to manage comfort, it's our struggles that upend us.

Often because we see struggle as standing in the way of our comfort. When quite often, in God's world, struggle is THE WAY to comfort.

Don't pray for struggle today, but don't stray from it either. It's quite possible there's a heroes story in the midst of it.