The bars aren’t meant to keep you out. No, sometimes they are saying…fight to get in.
(Picture by Lisa R)

God’s got jokes. Plenty of them. This morning I have to be honest I didn’t do my devotions. I kept putting it off thinking, “I’ll just do it later.” Later came. So I put it off for, yup, you guessed it, later. Then later came again and again (what’s up with later…geesh). It is now 7:27 pm and I just finished my devotions, about 15 minutes ago. So, why does God have jokes? The lesson I walked away with from my time in His word? Right choices are often the hardest to make (see God…JOKES). Why? They normally go against popular advice and popular beliefs. They also usually mean harder work, and more effort given. I am packing up and moving away from my “comfortable”. I am stepping into a unknown that will require me to work harder, put forth more effort. What I have realized about comfortable from this time of packing is that comfort makes you lazy. It makes you forget your dreams your goals. Often times we will sit in comfort, even if we are dissatisfied. Why? Well, it’s comfortable. We are not called to be comfortable, and just for the record we are not called to be uncomfortable either. No we are called to move forward, we are created to grow, change, and adapt. When we settle in our “comfortable” we don’t move forward. So today as I embark on this new journey. I know I will grow, I know I will change. But most importantly I know that God will continue to move me in His direction. That is the direction I want to go. Today’s lesson: Don’t settle in the “comfortable”. Move. Grow. Adapt.

“However, as it is written: ‘No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no human mind has conceived’ the things God has prepared for those who love Him” (1 Corinthian 2:9).

So what’s the plan? Move. Grow. Adapt. Let God be God.