knows this place.
the place where comfort
meets uncomfort.
that place of knowing
you are indeed
stepping from
one zone to
another.
from the comfort zone of
comfortableness
to the uncomfort zone of
uncomfortableness
and not always is the
zone of comfort
necessarily truly
comfortable.
sometimes it is
simply familiar.
yet familiarity can
become far too comfortable,
and so the zone of the familiar
eventually becomes the zone of comfort.
at times the comfort zone is so very
comfortable that the zonee
is blissfully unaware.
I know. I have been there.
and once aware, He has had me in a season of
stillness and quietness and listening.
learning to hear the whisper soft
with which He speaks to
my heart.
and I know He is calling me
to leave my zone of comfort.
to be willing to be stretched
even if that stretching brings pain.
and to live this life with eyes open
to see those around me through
the lens of love.
nothing more.
nothing less.
for love at its purest
can be neither more
nor less than love
so pure.
and no one could better know
that love than Abba Himself,
for He is love defined.
and was it not that love
which prompted Him to send
His only Son,
knowing what lie
ahead in the cross,
where He would
turn His face
away?
no greater zone of
uncomfort could possibly exist.
and the result of the Father's love
was seen in the life of Jesus.
hands which created all
now wore our skin.
He touched those seen as untouchable.
He walked with those seen as undesirable.
His compassion and tenderness for the
weak and poor and lost and weary
was the love of the Father
pouring out through His Son.
and that love which is Jesus
allows my heart to see
the very heart of my Abba,
who is that love so pure...
no more. no less. simply love.
and oh the comfort lying in a
love which can be no more
nor less than love itself,
for does that not mean that
I can be no more nor less,
because I wear that love so pure?
and when I dare step
into that place of
uncomfortableness,
failure is literally impossible
if that love is the driving force!
for never does He seek perfection.
instead He seeks a heart willing...
willing to bend low.
willing to walk in another's shoes.
willing to put aside all that distracts.
and simply love.
and I find myself
crossing from the
zone of comfort into
the zone of
uncomfort.
and now that I have
tasted and seen life
fully alive in His love,
I will never go back,
for I cannot untaste or unsee
that which I have tasted and seen.
and all the glory goes to
the One who is life defined.
I will never go back,
ReplyDeletefor I cannot untaste or unsee
that which I have tasted and seen
Amen