Aren't we too Comfortable

My thoughts on Practical Christianity

LIt's Saturday, 12:14 am, and I have an exam in like 10 hours but here I am, sat because if I don't put this down, I may not remember everything I would have wanted to write by Sunday.

This would be a long read, but I promise it'll be worth your time.

A few minutes before, I went to wash the dishes, a task I do not certainly enjoy apart from the fact that it gives me room to stare at my pretty fingers and hands each time looking very clean and demure. Lol

While washing the dishes, one of my many thoughts prevailed in my mind and heart, the one that concerned what I had to offer in the coming Sunday for my audience, I had been thinking about it from school the previous day or perhaps, since I dropped the last newsletter that earned me a lot of kind words.

I mentally had about 100 headlines for this week's blog post and succeeded in putting down two of which I am presently using none. In between washing grease and oil off the dishes in my sink, I'm thinking to myself “What am I going to write on this week? God I have no clue or idea”.

At that moment, I am reminded of a conversation I wanted to hold with someone earlier in the week but for some reason put off and I say to myself “This must be it”.

In the last two weeks, I've had moments of little or no appetite, I've felt like throwing up my food because I feel nauseated by whatever it is I am eating, I've had headaches too, I have purged mehnn and finally! Exams. I've had exams.

My heart still feels guilty anytime I remember my friend mentioned he didn't want to see me online due to how many exams I had in the week but everything I've done speaks the contrary…. 🫠

Somewhere in the back of my head, I've always held this view of true suffering for Christ like that of the Apostles

I somehow believe that we have not been exposed to or have not experienced true suffering because we are too comfortable in our comfort zones.

Let me explain

There are many times you pick up your phone to do a particular thing or task but end up using more than the intended time to scroll on social media you end your scroll only to realize the gross amount of time you used on something not so distracting. You were so distracted you didn't notice when three hours passed and you would never use that time to pray.

How have we gotten here?

It seems as though in this part of the world, on this side of life, we have no urgency to preach the gospel or share the Good News…. More like we are casual Christians finding a deep need to reverence God and make Him known only at programs, seminars, concerts, retreats and the like.

There is no urgency, and this is what makes me feel each time that we are too comfortable

My mind journeys back to all the times I refused to preach the gospel in a public transport vehicle even though I got the nudging to do so.

The times when I could have shared the gospel with a soul that was perishing but I shunned the thought and tried to water it down with God commanded us to love everybody and that love didn't get to sharing His truth with them

Patterns and rhythm of prayers we seem to have memorized as lines…. The inconsistencies in fasting and devoting time to the Bible….

Do we then or can we truly claim to love God? How are we even showing Him this love?

These and many more are the thoughts that occasionally plague my heart.

Somehow, we are caught up in the business of the world and forget that even though our physical appearances may testify that all is well, our souls will greatly war to proclaim the same. And doesn't the soul matter more to God?

What are we practising? Are we truly evolving Christlike?

Haven't we narrowed down the message of the gospel?

Light of the World and Salt of the Earth are not just titles, they are responsibilities. Are we living up to those responsibilities or are we just existing without purpose?

Are we fine?

Are we sane?

When was the last time you went on any of the following

A personal retreat

A personal evangelism/outreach

Secluded consecration

Alone time with God without the noise of this world

Don't think I'm attacking you. I'm speaking to myself too.

How much of flesh has consumed us?

How much expression of the Holy Spirit have we given way to?

Two years yet not one soul to make the person you claim to love happy. Then what is love?

Don't you go all out to put smiles on the faces of your favourite people? Why are we treating God like a distant partner begging for our attention?

Where is our sobriety? Where did my hunger go?

I read something very powerful on Instagram from a source I can't remember this week, it read

You don't go to a river to add more water to it. God represents the river, He has asked us to come and draw, we are not adding to God in any way by drawing from Him.

He needs us more than we need Him yet He’s the one who keeps begging for our attention.

More people need the gospel than we actually realize and maybe because whether we like to agree or not certain things come to us so easy we have become too comfortable

We are more lukewarm by the day and getting colder than stainless steel and the sad thing is we are complacent.

Very complacent.

During last year’s Young Ministers Retreat (YMR) a 3-day retreat led by Pastor Daniel Olawande, on the night our Father-in-the-Lord (Pastor E.A Adeboye) came to pray for us, among his prayers, he said  “God will send you to places Angels cannot go” and everyone shouted a resounding Amen

That prayer gave me goosebumps because it was resounded throughout the rest of the retreat, but are we truly the ones God will send to places where angels cannot tread?

I don't think we understand the urgency of the times and seasons we are in. I doubt it.

Again, we are too complacent

Too comfortable

Too rigid

And oh souls are waiting to hear this same gospel we’ve received and are now trivializing

As I type this, I am more concerned about the state of my spiritual health and my comfort with things that should be odd, things that are offensive to the nature of the one I claim to love.

Now think about it yourself

Aren’t we too comfortable?

”For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when He comes in His own glory, and in His Father’s, and of the holy angels.“

‭‭Luke‬ ‭9‬:‭26‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

”“Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. “But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.”“

‭‭Matthew‬ ‭7‬:‭24‬-‭27‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Till next week

I love you dearly

TFA💜